Hand gripping an upright sword with a gold crown-shaped guard, surrounded by red dots, on a stencil-colored woodblock playing card.

Minchiate Tarot Playing Card with Sword and Crown

A hand grips the hilt of an upright sword at lower center of this card, its blade rising between scattered red dots and a gold crown-shaped guard. Small rosette corner ornaments and a narrow black border frame the stencil-colored woodblock design on cream paper.

Artist: Unknown
Date: 17th century
Medium: Stencil-colored woodblock print
Source: Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)
Size: 1682 × 2593 px

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Public domain · Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum) releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1700).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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