Cerulean
The Jeu de Princess cards of both Lovers in this deck and the 2 of Cups design (link below) i looked familiar to me. It seems to me it is similar to the Rider Waite Smith design by Pamela Colman Smith.
First the RWS design:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/tarot/pkt/img/cu02.jpg
Description of Two of Cups meaning:
http://images.google.com/imgres?img...o+of+cups+rider+waite&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
The symbolic figure in between the two lovers in profile in the RWS seem to combine two of the elements of the designs below--check the Lovers above and two of cups just below:
http://www.spiritone.com/~filipas/Masquerade/Reviews/cartoma.html
Also the eight of wands. Il Menghello notes it is just an Italian design circa 1800s. It is similar to the Jeu de Princesse cards at a French site and posted at Villa Revak...another low-cost version of this deck is Lo Scarabeo's Ancient Esoteric Tarots...Lo Scarabeo posts it as an Etteilla influenced design.
Perhaps it's just another suggestive link of how Etteilla influences showed up in later decks, including the RWS.
Does anyone have a Jeu de Princesse
First the RWS design:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/tarot/pkt/img/cu02.jpg
Description of Two of Cups meaning:
http://images.google.com/imgres?img...o+of+cups+rider+waite&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
The symbolic figure in between the two lovers in profile in the RWS seem to combine two of the elements of the designs below--check the Lovers above and two of cups just below:
http://www.spiritone.com/~filipas/Masquerade/Reviews/cartoma.html
Also the eight of wands. Il Menghello notes it is just an Italian design circa 1800s. It is similar to the Jeu de Princesse cards at a French site and posted at Villa Revak...another low-cost version of this deck is Lo Scarabeo's Ancient Esoteric Tarots...Lo Scarabeo posts it as an Etteilla influenced design.
Perhaps it's just another suggestive link of how Etteilla influences showed up in later decks, including the RWS.
Does anyone have a Jeu de Princesse