An early Ming white-glazed dish, Xuande incised six-character mark within a double circle and of the period (1426-1435). Estimate HK$900,000 – HK$1,800,000 ($120,000 - $230,000). Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2015

The dish has shallow, rounded sides that rise to a slightly everted rim and is covered inside and out with a glaze of milk-white tone. 5 1/2 in. (14.1 cm.) diam., box 

Notes: The present dish belongs to a group of very rare small white-glazed Xuande-marked dishes ranging between 12-13.8 cm. in diameter, which bear either incised or inscribed underglaze-blue marks. Very few examples with incised marks are known, compare to one (13 cm.) formerly in the R.E.R. Luff Will Trust collection, subsequently sold at Sothebys London, 26 June 1973, lot 27, and at Christie's London, 3 November 2009. For examples with underglaze-blue marks, see an example (12 cm.) in the National Palace Museum, included in the Special Exhibition of Hsuan-te Wares, Taipei, 1980, no. 120; and another (13 cm.) from the Alfred Clarke and Jingguantang Collections, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 3 November 1996, lot 555. 

CHRISTIE'S. THE IMPERIAL SALE & IMPORTANT CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART, 3 June 2015, Convention Hall