Stencil-colored 17th-century card showing many orange and gray wands crossing in an X, with red-capped ends and two red dots beside a gold central ornament.

Minchiate Tarot Playing Card with Crossed Batons

A hand-colored playing card with many thin wands crossing diagonally in a radiating X pattern, their ends capped with red knobs and banded in gold and white. Two red dots flank the center, where a gold ornament sits over the crossing; the card has a cream border and a faded, woodblock-printed look.

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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