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A set of twenty-two faience tarot card tiles South East France, possibly 19th century
Estimate
10,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description
- 36 x 21cm., 14¼ x by 8¼in.
of rectangular form, painted in the Tarot de Marseille familly tradition, each tile with an allegorical figure, titled and numbered: le Mat 0, le Bateleur I, la Papesse II, l'Emperatrice III, l'Empereur IV, le Pape V, l'Amoreux VI, le Chariot VII, la Justice VIII, L'Hermit VIIII, la Fortune X, la Force XI, le Pendul XII, (dead, not named) XIII, Temperance XIV, Diable XV, La Maison Dieu XVI, l' Toile XVII, la Lune XVIII, le Soleil XVIIII, e Jugement XX, le Monde XXI
Catalogue Note
The traditional Tarot deck consists of two sets of cards, one having twenty-two pictures (Major Arcana) the other set of fifty-six cards (Minor Arcana). The Tarot de Marseille design was named after Marseille, one of the largest areas of card manufacturing in the 17th and 18th century. For comparable style and iconography see the card deck by Nicolas Conver, 1760, illustrated by P.Marteau, Tarot de Marseille.