Minchiate Tarot Playing Card, Stencil-Colored Woodblock

A hand-colored woodblock playing card with a pale border and a central field of diagonal, sword-like lines tipped with red roundels and yellow leaf-shaped accents. The dense, symmetrical arrangement of repeated motifs fills the card, with black outlines and stenciled color slightly offset from the key lines, plus small curled ornaments at top and bottom.

Artist

Unknown

Date

17th century

Medium

Stencil-colored woodblock print

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

1622 × 2547 px

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