ORIENT DELIGHTS ORIENT'S MOST FAMOUS SWEETS
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Object Details
- Artist
- Unidentified
- Luce Center Label
- This sign was probably painted for a candy factory in Hoboken, New Jersey. Images from the Middle East became fashionable in the early twentieth century, and the domed building on this sign, which resembles the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, reinforces the idea that the candy actually came from the “Orient.”
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson
- ca. 1920
- Object number
- 1986.65.151
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Painting
- Folk Art
- Medium
- housepaint on plywood
- Dimensions
- 36 x 72 in. (91.5 x 183.0 cm.)
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- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Cityscape\celestial\moon
- Object\other\sign
- Architecture Exterior\religious\mosque
- Record ID
- saam_1986.65.151
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk738be8364-0386-4afe-b138-e1aaf6768ea9
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