Dodal, linked reproduction
Deux de Coupes
Jean Dodal’s Marseille pack · Lyon, 1701–1715.
Read the BnF catalogue record ↗A pair and the space between
Two cups can suggest a relationship without showing two people.
Start with the pictures
Two of Cups
Pamela Colman Smith · 1922 printing, p. 223
Open the source scan page ↗Notice what changes
Dodal
Deux de Coupes
Two cups stand below paired, curving fish-like forms and a central plant. The maker’s name appears within the decorative arrangement.
Smith
Two of Cups
Two figures face one another holding cups. A winged lion’s head and intertwined serpents appear above them.
Harris
Two of Cups · 2
Two gold cups receive streams beneath a large lotus. Two curved aquatic animals face one another around the flower’s stem, above blue water.
Open Harris’s painting and reference page ↗Now read the authors
Waite’s explanation
Waite names the upper emblem as the caduceus of Hermes. His meanings centre on affinity, friendship, love and union, while his concluding suggestion extends beyond a practical fortune-telling list.
Crowley’s explanation
Crowley calls the card Love and connects Venus in Cancer with receptive harmony. He identifies the animals as dolphins and gives them an alchemical significance within his account of love under will.
What connects the pair: a gesture, a shared source or the symmetry of the design?
Write one thing you can point to in the image, one interpretation from a named author, and one inference of your own. Keeping the three separate gives you something useful to revisit.
Sources and image credits
The Dodal cards are one early-eighteenth-century Marseille witness. The black-and-white Smith plates come from the 1922 Rider reprint, whose title verso lists first publication in 1910. Colours in later editions can differ.
Foolmade supplies the linked Dodal reproductions. Its surrounding commentary is not the basis for our historical claims. These images are linked externally; the Smith illustration reuses the public-domain source scan with its full page context.
Harris’s paintings are linked on their host’s reference pages. Crowley’s text is the separately identified Thelemagick transcription of The Book of Thoth. Neither a modern reproduction nor a transcription replaces examination of the original artwork or edition.