The Cloisters Playing Cards

Unknown Artist

ca. 1475–80

The Cloisters Playing Cards by Unknown Artist

Medium

Paper (four layers of pasteboard) with pen and ink, opaque paint, glazes, and applied silver and gold

Dimensions

Each: 5 3/16 × 2 3/4 in. (13.2 × 7 cm)

Classification

Miscellaneous-Paper

Culture

South Netherlandish

Department

The Cloisters

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Cloisters Collection, 1983

Accession Number

1983.515.1–.52

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