Porcelain in England in 1748 in order to compete with imported porcelain, bone china is now made worldwide. The English had read the letters of Jesuit missionary Francois Xavier d'Entrecolles, which described Chinese porcelain manufacturing secrets in detail. One writer has speculated that a misunderstanding of the text could possibly have been responsible for the first attempts to use bone-ash as an ingredient of English porcelain, although this is not supported by researchers and historians. In China, kaolin was sometimes described as forming the 'bones' of the paste, while the 'flesh' was provided by the refined rocks suitable for the porcelain
Porcelain crab are "Petrolisthes quadratus", found in large numbers under rocks in the intertidal, and the red-and-white polka-dotted "Porcellana sayana", which lives commensally within the shells inhabited by large hermit crabs. In Hong Kong, "Petrolisthes japonicus" is common. , some 4723 extant species porcelain crab had been described, divided among these 30 genera: The fossil record of porcelain crabs includes species of "Pachycheles", "Pisidia", "Polyonyx", "Porcellana", and a further 6 genera known only from fossils: The earliest porcelain crab fossil is "Jurellana" from the Tithonian of central Europe. Porcelain crab Porcelain crabs are decapod crustaceans in the widespread family Porcellanidae, which superficially