Stencil-colored woodblock playing card with a large gold lattice diamond at center, crossed by orange and gray diagonal bands with small ornaments at the ends.

Minchiate Playing Card with Central Gold Diamond

A stencil-colored woodblock playing card on a cream ground with a thin border. A large yellow-gold lattice diamond sits at the center, crossed by diagonal orange and gray bands ending in small yellow and red ornamental motifs.

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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