Ancient Egypt Style Playing Cards

$12.95 at de Young Museum.

Charming deck of 54 playing cards (x2 Jokers) featuring Albert Racinet's Ancient Egypt style art on the cover that is a nod to vintage art and design that helped influence Art Deco of the early 20th century. Albert-Charles-Auguste-Racinet (1825-1893) was a French costume historian, painter, illustrator, and author. Racinet's publication L'Ornement Polychrome is a monumental collection of more than 100 richly-colored lithographic plates depicting decorative artwork from ancient civilizations through the 18th…