Old hand-colored playing card with two crossed swords with red dots on the blades and a seated red figure at the bottom.

Minchiate Playing Card with Crossed Swords

A hand-colored woodblock playing card with a thin black frame shows two swords crossed in an X, their hilts tinted yellow-green and their blades dotted with red. Below, a red-clad seated figure with a horned head rests on a grassy yellow-green 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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