The Ace of Cups

What seems consistent across Marseille-type depictions is that the cup is not only covered, but that 'above' the flat material covering sits another fancifully depicted cover of the New Jerusalem. If nothing else, to my eyes this indicates that within the Marseille-type depiction this stands as fundamentally Christian in its depiction: no Cathar, for example, would have adopted that image, nor would in all likelihood have either Huguenots protestants nor Calvanists.

As New Jerusalem, I also suggest that the image makes a subtle (or perhaps not so subtle) point that those who partake of the eucharist are those destined for this apocalyptic redemption.

[some of the images that follow were simply in a folder for courts and pips, rather than Cups - I will need to sort them out at some stage in the near future]

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