If an old male duck is cooked so as to melt in the ... Yan Song (1480 - 1567), a prime minister of the Ming Dynasty, had many high – grade sets of dinnerware among his articles of tribute.

Three men snatched Ming dynasty antiques worth more than 3.5 million US dollars (£2.78 million) from a Swiss museum shortly before they allegedly plotted to murder a career criminal convicted of ...