Antique playing card with crossed bundles of red-tipped staves over a yellow-ochre lattice diamond, with red dots in the corners and a thin border.

Minchiate Playing Card with Crossed Batons

A playing card printed from woodblock and colored by stencil, showing a central yellow-ochre lattice diamond crossed by diagonal bundles of wooden staves with red and ochre tips. Red dots sit in the open corners, and a thin border frames the pale cream paper.

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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