2 of Tethers, from The Cloisters Playing Cards, South Netherlandish, ca. 1475–80
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
ca. 1475–80
Playing card in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (accession 1983.515.25), catalogued by the museum's The Cloisters department under the title “2 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
- 475550
- Museum object name
- Playing card
- Museum object number
- 1983.515.25
Catalogue references
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