A Small Silver Barrel-Form Box and Cover, Song-Yuan Dynasty, 12th-13th Century宋/元 银开光莲纹鼓形盖罐Engraved with four quatrefoil panels containing lotus blossoms set against a leafy ground, the cover and underside with alternating bands of wavy lines, a Song dynasty 'yuan bao' coin fused to the base likely due to centuries of adjacent placement, diameter 2.6 in — 6.6 cmProvenance:Ex. Collection of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth (1929-2014)Christie's March 20, 2015, lot 737来源：纽约佳士得安思远专场2015年3月20日，拍品编号737Note:Coins with "flower-hole" centres became popular starting from the Tang dynasty (618-907 AD). The two characters on the lower left corner on the current example read "yuan bao" 元寶, while the two characters on the upper right corner suggest that they read "jing de" 景德, which would date the coin to the reign of Emperor Zhenzong (998-1022 AD) of the Northern Song dynasty.Estimate: $4,000—6,000