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7 of Tethers, from The Cloisters Playing Cards, South Netherlandish, ca. 1475–80

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Record status

Individual type · partial

Period

ca. 1475–80

Playing card in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (accession 1983.515.20), catalogued by the museum's The Cloisters department under the title “7 of Tethers, from The Cloisters Playing Cards”. The museum dates it ca. 1475–80 and records its origin as South Netherlandish. The museum records the medium as Paper (four layers of pasteboard) with pen and ink, opaque paint, glazes, and applied silver and gold and the dimensions as 5 3/16 × 2 3/4 in. (13.2 × 7 cm). Subject tags assigned by the museum: Playing Cards, Games. These details are transcribed from the museum's open-access record; how far this object represents a wider collectible type has not yet been independently verified.

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Physical characteristics

Material
Paper (four layers of pasteboard) with pen and ink, opaque paint, glazes, and applied silver and gold
Dimensions
5 3/16 × 2 3/4 in. (13.2 × 7 cm)

Technical characteristics

Classification
Miscellaneous-Paper
Culture recorded
South Netherlandish

Identification

Met object id
475545
Museum object name
Playing card
Museum object number
1983.515.20

Catalogue references

No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.

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