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Accession #	87.139.1
Artist	Morston Constantine Ream
Title	Still Life
Date	1876
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	32 1/16 × 25 7/8 in. (81.4 × 65.8 cm) frame: 45 7/8 × 39 3/4 × 5 1/4 in. (116.5 × 101 × 13.3 cm)
Signed	Signed lower left: ""Morston Ream / 76"
Credit Line	Dick S. Ramsay Fund
Location	Visible Storage: Case 23, Screen C (Paintings)

Curatorial Remarks: This artfully composed still life of a dessert table evokes the material and aesthetic opulence of dining in a well-to-do Victorian home—the kind of setting in which the flatware exhibited below would have also appeared. Interestingly, the silver cream pitcher and sugar bowl decorated with Grecian motifs closely resemble objects produced by the Reed & Barton company at the time of Morston Ream’s painting.