Old stencil-colored playing card with bundles of orange-tipped batons crossed in an X over a yellow lattice, with red dots on a cream background.

Minchiate Playing Card with Crossed Batons

A stencil-colored woodblock card with a cream border shows bundles of batons crossed in a large X. Orange-tipped sticks with gray and yellow bands meet in a yellow lattice at the center, with red dots scattered around.

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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