Minchiate Playing Card with Yellow Rosettes

A playing card printed from woodblocks and colored by hand with stencils, showing five yellow rosettes with red centers. Four of the rosettes sit in the corners and one in the center, with four small red dots set between them on a pale ground.

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