Urn 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

Compton Acres Gardens at Canford Cliffs, near Poole, Dorset
View of Compton Acres Gardens in the village of Canford Cliffs, near Poole, Dorset. Bright pink flowers can be seen through an archway with a wrought iron gate

Costume / Ancient Greece
A man and woman of Ancient Greece

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

Abc Cafe London / 1900
The Aerated Bread Company Cafe (ABC) Ludgate Hill, London. The tea rooms opened in the 1860s, serving hot drinks and snacks. The stair sign reads Ladies Coffee Room Downstairs

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

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

Drinking outside a cafe
Drinking outside in a French cafe

Map of Italy in 1836 by Ab. Bartolomeo Borghi
Map of Italy in 1836. Showing the kingdoms of Sardinia, Lombardy, Venice, Rome, Tuscany, Parma, Naples and Corsica. Map by Ab. Bartolomeo Borghi, Florence. l Italia dell Ab. B. Borghi, Firenze 1836

Trades in Regency England. Spinning, reaping flax and Suffolk horses. Woman spinning wool on a wheel outside a cottage in Lavenham 28, boy harvesting hemp for sailcloth in Suffolk 29

Women of Venice dying their hair using a solana (a wide brim hat with a hole in the centre), one with a sponge A, and one with comb in front of a mirror after Cesare Vecellio B, and wooden comb C

Dunkenhalgh Hall, near Accrington, Lancashire. Date: circa 1910

Decorative Lozenge
A painting of a woman pouring some liquid into an urn which stands on the floor, accompanied by a man wearing a hat, carrying a small vessel. Date: circa 1922

A Jolly Noonday
This watercolour painting shows a group of women wearing colourful dresses, enjoying their day at the riverside, next to a large garden thin stemmed urn, brimming with flowers. Date: circa 1919

RMS Titanic - Carlton china post-disaster souvenir in the form of an urn. 2.5 inches

Artefacts from the excavation from Tel-El-Obeid excavation in Ur of the Chaldean, which were on show in the British Museum

Caryatid with urn, 1883. Sculpture by Auguste Rodin
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). French sculptor. Caryatid with urn, 1883. Bronze. Garden of Sculptures. Rodin Museum. Paris. France. Date: 2008

Funerary urn with depiction of the solar god Kinich Ahau and the image of the deceased on the cover. Painted ceramic. Maya culture. Late Classic Period (600-900 AD). Mesoamerica. Maya area

Dunkenhaigh Hall, Clayton-le-Moors, near Accrington, Lancs
Dunkenhaigh Hall, Clayton-le-Moors, near Accrington, Lancashire Date: circa 1910

Funerary Monument - Urn on Plinth. circa 1900s

Etruscan Art. Italy. Travertine's sarcophagus-urn. Tomb of C
Etruscan Art. Italy. Travertine's sarcophagus-urn. On the lid: reclined female figure of the deceased and inscription: Than (Ia) Trenthinei (married to) Caspre (husband's family name)

Columbarium. National Roman Museum. Rome
Columbarium. National Roman Museum. Baths of Diocletian. Rome. Italy

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

John Donne, poet and Dean of St Paul's Cathedral
John Donne (1572-1631), poet and Dean of St Paul's Cathedral -- monument in the Old St Paul's, which he commissioned for himself before his death

The corpse of Hector brought into Troy. The Trojan soldiers wear helmets that resemble Phrygian caps. Priam kneels at the left, and Hectors wife Andromache and son Astyanax mourn at right

Magistrates from an ancient Etruscan urn. President with curule seat, four praetors or judges in short-sleeved tunics. Urna Etrusca rappresentante alcuni magistrati

Etruscans in garlands lying on couches at a feast. Servants bring food and wine, while musicians play lyre, panpipes and flute

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

Roman funeral rites for the dead. The parents and family of the deceased surround the bed, the father and mother seated and veiled in grief. Lutto domestico per una defunta

Etruscan marble urn and mirror
Ancient Etruscan marble urn showing a regal throne 1, and Etruscan mirror depicting Eris, Menrfa in helmet, Hercules with club and lionskin, and Thetis 2. Urna marmorea rappresentante un trono

Roman lictors in toga and laurel wreath
Roman lictors, bodyguards to magistrates, in toga and laurel wreath, with their ceremonial fasces or bipennis. Littori. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Corsi from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes

Etruscan warriors hit by Greek arrows at the siege of Thebes. Etruscan warriors attempt to scale the walls of the city with ladders, shields. From an alabaster urn in the Volterra museum

English tourists with a rusty ancient sword near Holyrood
A Scottish mason informing English tourists that their rusty ancient falchion sword is a modern blade by Andrea Ferrara in front of Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh

Pedestal for the Borghese or Campana Vase, decorated with reliefs of grapevines and festoons. Chromolithograph by W. Griggs from Frederick Rathbones Old Wedgwood

Decorative figures from the House of Epigrams, Regio V, Insula 1, 18. An urn and mythical beast at top, and a goat and hunting scene with dog and hare below

Pot-pourri vase from Strasbourg, 18th century, decorated with botanical painting. Hand-finished chromolithograph from Ris Paquots General History of Ancient French and Foreign Glazed Pottery

Gallo-Roman glazed pottery. Hand-finished chromolithograph from Ris Paquots General History of Ancient Glazed Pottery, French and International, Chez l Auteur, Paris, 1874

Egyptian and Greek pottery, decorated antefix 5, and rhyton in the shape of a cows head 6. Hand-finished chromolithograph from Ris Paquots General History of Ancient French

Etruscan and Campanian pottery in soft paste without glaze. Hand-finished chromolithograph from Ris Paquots General History of Ancient French and Foreign Glazed Pottery, Chez l Auteur, Paris, 1874

Greco-roman clay amphora, vases and urns
Greco-roman clay amphora, vases, jugs and urns. Hand-finished chromolithograph from Ris Paquots General History of Ancient French and Foreign Glazed Pottery, Chez l Auteur, Paris, 1874

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

Festive costume of Conrad Pistor of the Kremer Guild, 1588
Festive costume of Conrad Pistor of the Kremer Guild in 1588, with his coat of arms with ploughshare, indicating blacksmith. From an Aschaffenburg guild book

Malayan urn vine, Dischidia major (Dischidia rafflesiana). Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe

Ancient Greek women at their toilet: washing hair in a font, trying on clothes, arranging hair, admiring a necklace, etc, Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Sasso after a painting by Pelagio

Wool-comber combing out wool remove short fibres. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Phillips, London, 1818

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