funerary urn]] An urn is a vase, ordinarily covered and without handles that usually has a narrowed neck above a footed pedestal. Knife urns on pedestals flanking a dining-room sideboard were an English innovation of the late 1760s that went out of fashion as sideboards with deep cupboard drawers were introduced at the end of the following decade. In Classical term: A large decorative container of wood, metal, pottery, etc. In furniture, a large wooden vaselike container which was usually set on a pedestal on either side of a side table. This was the chracteristic of Adam designs and also of Hepplewhite's work. Urns were also used as decorative turnings at the cross points of stretchers in the 16th and 17th century furniture designs, The urn and the vase were very often set on the central pedestal in a "broken" or "swan's" neck pediment --- The Dictionary of Interior Design by Martin Pegler Funerary urns

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