A little over a year ago a good friend of mine told me she had some china to give to me for making into jewelry. I do have a bit of a reputation with my friends and customers for working with broken china, and I often get given china shards. Of course I had no idea how special this china actually was or how popular it would prove to be with my customers. My friend told me it was Ming china and that she’d collected it when she’d scuba dived an old Portuguese shipwreck off the