Urns Collection

Driffield Union workhouse, East Yorkshire
The entrance to the union workhouse (or Poor Law Institution) on Bridlington Road, Driffield, in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Two inmates can be seen on the left, sitting on a bench

Horace in Archway
QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Roman lyric poet and satirist

Scenery for Aladdin, Pollocks Toy Theatre, with two rounded arches opening onto a seascape. Date: late 19th century

Antony and Cleopatra, Act IV, Scene xv, The death of Antony Date: 1927

Front cover of the Sketch Book, 1925, by E H Shepherd
Front cover of the Summer Sketch Book of 1925, featuring an illustration of a young woman in a diaphanous green dress stepping gracefully down between two urns of flowers

Women Of The Sea
A painting of some young women, carrying pots and urns above their heads, with another laid on the floor, near some waters, with a bridge visible. Date: circa 1920

Victorian Death Bereavement Mourning White Black
victorian, death, bereavement, mourning, white, black, 1850s, embossed, card, religion, religious, belief, faith, tree, trees, cemetery, urn, urns, funerary, rectangle, rectangular, woman, women

Embossed Victorian mourning card, three daughters
Embossed Victorian mourning card, with a grieving woman, an urn above and a church on the right. In Memory of Louisa, fourth daughter of Edward and Louisa Paris, who died January 8th, 1858

Girl: red jacket with rounded borders, short tartan skirt, spats & staw hat. Woman: grey checked long kilt style skirt with vertical front pockets, short jacket & a tiny hat & veil Date: 1915

Figures of the dead from Etruscan furereal urns. A man lies on his side in a white tunic and toga, crowned with a garland. From the lid of an urn found near Chiasi in 1721

Scene from Petroniuss Satyricon. Trimalchio comes to have dinner after a bath, led by a servant. Another servant takes off his shoes, while an old man plays the tibia or aulos

Roman cinerary urn and vase. Two marble cinerary urns found in ancient tombs in Siena 1, 2, and marble urn with pedestal and figure of lion attacking a bull 3. After Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Wall of funeral urns in alcoves in a sepulchral chamber in the Villa Corsina. Copperplate engraving by Henry Moses from A Collection of Antique Vases, Altars, etc. London, 1814

British gentlemen on the Grand Tour opening an ancient classical tomb and pilfering vases, urns, and other treasures. As desrcibed by Sir William Hamilton

Scandinavian monuments and urns
Ancient Viking monuments from a German province close to Scandinavia, and some urns taken from Danish and Swedish tombs. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giarre

Tomb of a Guinean king, guarded by warriors, and decorated with severed heads on spears, offerings, plates and urns. Men sacrificing more victims in the background

Tin-plate worker in apron beating tin on an anvil with a mallet surrounded by tin buckets, pots, urns and utensils. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades

Memorial, at Portsea to the Crew of HMS Royal George
Memorial at Portsea to the Crew of HMS Royal George, sunk on the heel of Spithead on 29 August 1782. 1780s

Russian department at The Great Exhibition 1851
Russia exhibit in The Great Exhibition of 1851 at Hyde Park. 1851

Porcelain manufacturers 1848
Moulding: The placing of the craull upon the mould; the ornament-moulder repareur or finisher. Date: 1848

Porcelain manufacturers 1840s
Moulding operation. Date: Circa 1840s

THERMAL TEA URN
A classic tea urn, the type used to serve up steaming hot cups of tea in cafes and tea shops in Great Britain. Date: 1940s

Georgian Donkey Water Carrier - Caucasus. Date: circa 1908

A classic image celebrating the Biedermeier style, which originated in Germany and Austria, flourished in the prosperous middle-class homes of Europe from about 1815 to 1848

Boy and girl in the snow on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Garden scene with robins and flowers on a Christmas card
Garden scene with robins, flowers, trees and water spouts on a Christmas card with white and gold ornate edging. circa 1890s

Elegant lady in a grand country garden picks roses Date: circa 1890s

Cist and Burial Urns, Ballywilliam, Donaghadee, 1907 - a view into a hole containing Burial urns. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Down; Donaghadee). Date: circa early 1900s

A view of fragment of burial urns, Ballyrainey, Comber, with an old penny for scale. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Down; Comber). Date: circa early 1900s

Cupids in stage setting on a Christmas card
Cupids in a stage setting on a Christmas card with a pull tab. circa 1890s

Etruscan Art. Italy. In honour of the ancestors. Urns-face
Etruscan Art. Italy. In honour of the ancestors. Symbolic faces were the focus and memorials held at the graveside. Symbolised Urns-face. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhage. Denmark

Etruscan. Cineray urns on podium. Chamber tomb of the Pruni family near Chiusi, Etruria. 200-100 B.C. Reliefs. Detail. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen. Denmark

Advert for Maple & Co drawing-room suite 1897
Amersham, drawing-room suits, consisting of settee, two easy, four occasional and two chalet chairs in carved dark mahogany, well upholstered in rich silk tapestry. 1897

Garden scene with flowers on a greetings card
Garden scene with flowers, water spouts and a statue in a niche on a greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Romantic greetings card with flowers and verse
Romantic greetings card with flowers and a sentimental verse. Date: circa 1890s

Bickleigh Castle, Devon, a fortified manor house on the River Exe. The medieval keep can be seen on the left. Two children look down into the water. Date: circa 1980s

Roman funeral stones and urns.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalarts Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages. 1798

Weapons of ancient peoples. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalarts Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages. 1798

Roman religious paraphernalia. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalarts Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages. 1798

Couple in doorway with a dog
A couple in the doorway of a large house, with a dog sitting in the foreground. Date: circa 1910

Paris Exhibition 1900 - Tables of Vases and Urns
Lantern slide of Berlin - in Paris Exhibition, showing tables of vases/urns. Part of Box 198 Paris Exhibition, coloured slide, no. 32 Date: 1889

Cliff House and Seal Rocks, San Francisco, California, USA
Old Cliff House and Seal Rocks, San Francisco, California, USA. This was the second Cliff House on the site, destroyed by fire in 1907. Date: circa 1900

Trade catalogue for Kettles and Stands 1911
Trade catalogue for Harrords department store, showing a variety of brass kettles and urns for use on the tea-table. Date: 1911

Kobe, Japan - Daibutsu Buddha - Nofukuji Temple
The great statue of Buddha (Daibutsu) at Kobe in Japan (Nofukuji Temple at Hyogo Prefecture). Date: circa 1905

Funerary urns. Iron Age. Ceramics. SPAIN. Burgos. Burgos Museum. Proc: SPAIN. CASTILE AND LEON. Merindad del r� Ubierna. Ubierna

Kettles and Stands
Kettles and urns for use on the tea-table, each with its own powerful lamp to keep the contents hot if not bubbling. Date: 1930

Cathedral of Santa Marla Menor - Dominican Republic Cathedral of Santa Mar�la Menor - Dominican Republic
The Cathedral of Santa Maria la Menor, Santo Domingo - Dominican Republic. The remains of Christopher Columbus were once housed (in the urns depicted) at the Cathedral

Sir Douglas Haig with General Rawlinson, France
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig (1861-1928) with General Sir Henry Rawlinson (1864-1925) at 4th Army Headquarters, Querrieu, northern France, during the First World War. July 1916

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