SAN FRANCISCO - A hand-me-down dish used for crab dinners fetched a record $5.7 million in an auction this week, after art experts determined it was extremely rare Ming dynasty porcelain.AP PhotoThe flowery, copper-red plate — which set a record for Ming art sold in a U.S. auction — once belonged to Elinor Majors Carlisle, a Berkeley businesswoman who became a public education crusader and suffragette in the 1890s.Carlisle's father, Alexander Majors, co-founded a transcontinental freight transport company that later became the Pony Express.Carlisle picked up the plate in the early 1900s, during one of three voyages to China. She...