Playing card with eight round yellow and green medallions, each with a red center, and small red dots scattered between them on a pale background.

Minchiate (Tarot) Playing Card

A stencil-colored woodblock print of a playing card with eight round medallions arranged in a pattern on a pale ground. Each medallion has a yellow four-petaled flower around a red center within a dark green ring, with small red dots scattered between them, and a thin border frames the card.

Artist: Unknown
Date: 17th century
Medium: Stencil-colored woodblock print
Source: Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)
Size: 1622 × 2547 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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