1.   Brenner created pendants made with Ming dynasty pottery shards.

2.   Encouraged by several American professors, he wanted to visit the United States for several weeks last summer to help translate a Ming dynasty manuscript.

3.   Hovering over the wreck, careful to touch nothing, Clifford saw among the ballast stones little bits of blue, which turned out to be Ming dynasty porcelain.

4.   Ming dynasty ceramics and rare bedroom furnishings adorned with mother of pearl are other standouts.

5.   Ripley visited Sackler at his apartment in Manhattan, which was filled with Asian art, Lawton said, and Sackler pointed out a bed from the Ming dynasty.

6.   Sternly elegant and constructed of age-ambered cedar, the windows, which are basically square trelliswork screens, are relics of a Ming dynasty villa.

7.   The Asian ambience is underscored with an art collection that includes a menacing Ming dynasty tiger at the front door.

8.   A provincial official in charge of cultural relics has been arrested for smuggling Ming dynasty sculptures, a Chinese newspaper reported Monday.

9.   A provincial official in charge of protecting relics has been sentenced to three years in prison for smuggling a Ming dynasty statue, a Chinese newspaper reported.

10.   A provincial official in charge of relics protection has been sentenced to three years in prison for smuggling a Ming dynasty statue, a Chinese newspaper reported.