Antique stencil-colored playing card with six yellow and red circular rosettes in three rows, a scribbled oval mark at center, and small red dots.

Minchiate (Tarot) Playing Card

A hand-colored woodblock playing card shows six circular rosettes in yellow, green-gray and red, arranged in three rows of two around a black-outlined oval with a scribbled mark. Small red dots fill the gaps between the rosettes, and a thin black border frames the 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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