Playing card deck, 18th century
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
18th century
Pack of Minchiate cards (96, the Matto missing): the four suits, each of 14 cards, lettered with historical details of Persia (Cups), Rome (Batons), Greece (Swords) and Assyria (Money) and the 40 atout cards, numbered throughout, illustrating biblical, historical and mythological events etc.
On the back of each card an allegorical figure of History seated among the ruins of Rome and the words "Testis Temporum." Italian, 18th century.
Evidence at a glance
- Linked sources
- 1
- Photograph views
- 1
- Catalogue references
- 0
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Physical characteristics
- Dimensions
- Height: 4 in; Width: 2.375 in
- Materials and techniques
- engravings with woodcuts pasted to backs and overlapped round to form face borders.
Technical characteristics
- Place recorded
- Italy
Identification
- Candidate id
- vam-O729669
- Museum object number
- E.822-1939
- Source note
- Facts transcribed from the linked single-object source. Wider type attribution and authenticity have not been independently verified.
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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