Minchiate Tarot Playing Card with Crossed Batons

A hand-colored playing card with four knobbed wooden batons crossed in an X, wrapped with white and yellow bands and tipped with red and gold ends. A yellow diamond fills the center, with red dots scattered around the cream field, printed as a stencil-colored woodblock.

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