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1 of Tethers, from The Cloisters Playing Cards

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · The Cloisters

1 of Tethers, from The Cloisters Playing Cards

South Netherlandish

Date
ca. 1475–80
Medium
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)
Object type
Playing card
Classification
Miscellaneous-Paper
Culture
South Netherlandish
Object number
1983.515.26
Credit line
The Cloisters Collection, 1983
Original Met record

Subjects and terms

  • Playing Cards
  • Games

The Met object ID 475551. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.