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Description: | Small playing card from a set with Northern Italian suits, representing the knight, or Cavallo, of swords. The back of the card has a blue fleur-de-lis pattern. The front of the card has an elaborate design in blue, yellow, red, green and black depicting the knight with a curved sword in his right hand, held high over his head, and mounted on a white horse. The card is divided in half, with the design appearing upside down in the bottom half.
caption: Frontal view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 8.385i.17 | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | paper (fiber product) paper playing cards Family and Home pigment | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-220487 | Go to resource |
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