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Waite–Smith, Cups

Ace of Cups

A hand supports an overflowing cup above water-lilies. A dove lowers a cross-marked wafer toward it, and five streams descend from the vessel.
Enlarge ↗Source scan, PDF p. 238 ↗

What you can see

A hand supports an overflowing cup above water-lilies. A dove lowers a cross-marked wafer toward it, and five streams descend from the vessel.

What Waite says

Waite connects the cup with nourishment, abundance, joy and the Holy Table. The printed text says four streams, while the plate shows five; the two witnesses are retained without silently correcting either one.

Waite · Part III, §2 · printed p. 224 ↗
Edition and image credits

Pamela Colman Smith, illustrations in The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Rider 1922 reprint, first published 1910. The scans keep the printed borders and page marks, with no cropping or recolouring.