Playing card on cream paper with seven yellow circular rosettes with red centers in a staggered pattern, plus six small red dots and a thin black border.

Minchiate Playing Card with Seven Yellow Roundels

The rectangular card shows seven yellow roundels, each with a red center and a petal-like inner design, arranged in a staggered pattern. Six small red dots fill the spaces between them inside a thin black border, with color applied over black outlines on 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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