The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word PORCELAIN
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result PORCELAIN
- Pottery Caroline smashed goes to tip ultimately
- Beer batch served up in delicate containers
- Awfully nice pal, or “china”
- In China, ran police ragged
- Shattered replica – no Ming items?
- China, clear about power, ignoring France
- China in place or out of place?
- Barking, or place in China
- Mao ultimately intervened in revolutionary rice plan for China
- China in place or out of place
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The straight part
We know that "Ming items?" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case ming items? = porcelain.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does PORCELAIN mean?
PORCELAIN noun- The plant Smilax china, a liana of much of eastern Asia.
- A plant or flower of the repeat-blooming Chinese rose species Rosa chinensis.
- A plant or flower of one of the class of hybrids developed from Rosa chinensis.
- Synonym of elderflower rose, Rosa cymosa.
- Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, native to east Asia.
- Chinaware: porcelain tableware.
- Cheaper and lower-quality ceramic and ceramic tableware, distinguished from porcelain.
- Synonym of cheyney: worsted or woolen stuff.
- Tea from China, varieties cured by smoking or opposed to Indian cultivars.
- (games) A glazed china marble.
- A kind of drum cymbal approximating a Chinese style of cymbal, but usually with Turkish influences.
- A small gastropod (Monetaria moneta, syn. Cypraea moneta) common in the Indian Ocean; its shell.
- (by extension) Any gastropod of the genus Cypraea; its shell.
- (by extension) Any gastropod of the family Cypraeidae; its shell.
- A person other than a family member, spouse or lover whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection.
- An associate who provides assistance.
- A person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted.
- A person who backs or supports something.
- An object or idea that can be used for good.
- (used only in the vocative) Used as a form of address when warning someone.
- A function or class granted special access to the private and protected members of another class.
- A spring-loaded camming device.
- A lover; a boyfriend or girlfriend.
- A relative, a relation by blood or marriage.
- A fine clay, rich in kaolinite, used in ceramics, paper-making, etc.
- (usually uncountable) A hard white translucent ceramic, originally made by firing kaolin, quartz, and feldspar at high temperatures but now also inclusive of similar artificial materials; also often such a material as a symbol of the fragility, elegance, etc. traditionally associated with porcelain goods.
- (now usually plural) An object made of porcelain, art objects or items of tableware.
- (often capitalized) A kind of pigeon with deep brown and off-white feathers.
- Small beads made from polished shells, especially white ones, formerly used as money and jewelry by certain Native American peoples.
- A string of such beads.
- Money.
- The plant Smilax china, a liana of much of eastern Asia.
- A plant or flower of the repeat-blooming Chinese rose species Rosa chinensis.
- A plant or flower of one of the class of hybrids developed from Rosa chinensis.
- Synonym of elderflower rose, Rosa cymosa.
- Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, native to east Asia.
- Chinaware: porcelain tableware.
- Cheaper and lower-quality ceramic and ceramic tableware, distinguished from porcelain.
- Synonym of cheyney: worsted or woolen stuff.
- Tea from China, varieties cured by smoking or opposed to Indian cultivars.
- (games) A glazed china marble.
- A kind of drum cymbal approximating a Chinese style of cymbal, but usually with Turkish influences.
- A small gastropod (Monetaria moneta, syn. Cypraea moneta) common in the Indian Ocean; its shell.
- (by extension) Any gastropod of the genus Cypraea; its shell.
- (by extension) Any gastropod of the family Cypraeidae; its shell.
- A person other than a family member, spouse or lover whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection.
- An associate who provides assistance.
- A person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted.
- A person who backs or supports something.
- An object or idea that can be used for good.
- (used only in the vocative) Used as a form of address when warning someone.
- A function or class granted special access to the private and protected members of another class.
- A spring-loaded camming device.
- A lover; a boyfriend or girlfriend.
- A relative, a relation by blood or marriage.
- A fine clay, rich in kaolinite, used in ceramics, paper-making, etc.
- (usually uncountable) A hard white translucent ceramic, originally made by firing kaolin, quartz, and feldspar at high temperatures but now also inclusive of similar artificial materials; also often such a material as a symbol of the fragility, elegance, etc. traditionally associated with porcelain goods.
- (now usually plural) An object made of porcelain, art objects or items of tableware.
- (often capitalized) A kind of pigeon with deep brown and off-white feathers.