Hand-colored 17th-century playing card with red and ochre pips in crossing diagonal lines, a yellow flower at center, a rooster and a dog at the bottom.

Minchiate Playing Card with Rooster and Dog

A hand-colored playing card, possibly from a minchiate or tarot-style deck, shows red and ochre pips arranged in crossing diagonal lines around a yellow flower at center. A rooster stands at lower left and a dog sits beside a red box at lower right, all in outlined stencil colors on a pale paper ground.

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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