Hand-colored playing card with a central figure in red and yellow raising a flower, flanked by two figures.

Minchiate (Tarot) Playing Card

A hand-colored woodblock playing card shows a central figure in a red and yellow tunic with green sleeves, raising a flower-like ornament above his head. Two smaller figures stand at either side in green, yellow and red, while red dots and star-shaped emblems fill the cream border and corners.

Artist: Unknown
Date: 17th century
Medium: Stencil-colored woodblock print
Source: Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)
Size: 1663 × 2579 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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