Minchiate Tarot Playing Card with Cups, 17th Century

A hand-colored woodblock playing card with eight red and yellow goblets arranged in three columns, with two small red dots above the center. Stencil-applied color sits on a cream paper field framed by a thin dark border, suggesting a suit of cups from a tarot or minchiate deck.

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