Princess Urns

This collection is for the person who was always called princess, from the granddaughter a family arranged itself around to the woman whose father and husband never stopped using the name. It is for the one captured in a photograph wearing a crown, and for anyone who carried that name for decades. These cast aluminum urns feature an engraved tiara design and are available in painted or hand-applied enamel finishes.

Available in full-size, sharing, and keepsake sizes, each piece can be engraved with a two-tone name and dates. These urns honor a life that was truly precious.

The word is doing a specific job in that house, and everybody in the family knows what it is: it is how they say someone is deeply loved. It is a name that often stays with a person from their earliest years through their eighties, remaining even when the people who first gave it to them are gone. It is often tied to a specific memory, like a sash or a crown in a childhood photo, marking a moment where they were made to feel special.

This collection is for the girl who was the youngest and knew exactly how to work it, the woman whose husband continued her father's favorite nickname, and the granddaughter who was the focus of her family's attention. It is for those who were treated as precious throughout their entire lives.

The design includes a tiara engraved into the metal. These are cast aluminum pieces, available in various painted colors or in hand-applied enamel with silver bands. Each one is completed with a threaded screw-top lid and a felt base.

These details give the piece a steady, dignified look that suits the fuss that was always made of her. The silver bands and careful finishes suit a name that was always said with affection.

The collection offers full-size, sharing, and keepsake sizes, allowing a family to select one piece or several to hold their memories. We can also engrave a name and dates directly into the metal using a two-tone technique.

Whether you choose a single keepsake or a larger piece, these urns allow you to make her name and her dates a permanent part of the design. Years from now, the name and the dates will still read exactly as she was known to you.

The tiara came back through Napoleon. He was crowned Emperor of the French in 1804 and the Empress Josephine wore one for the occasion as a sign of sovereignty, and his taste ran heavily to ancient Rome. This set off a run of classical tiaras.

Eventually, the object stopped being about rank. Across the nineteenth century brides began wearing tiaras over their veils, and by the Edwardian years, known in Europe as La Belle Epoque, houses such as Cartier and Van Cleef and Arpels were making them for aristocrats and for anybody ambitious enough to want one at a ball. The item shifted from meaning a title to meaning an occasion where somebody was the one being celebrated. For a family, the design on the urn is the name she was given at four and kept, and the fuss that was rightly made of her.

Source: Sotheby's, The Story of Tiaras, A History of Elegance

If she was someone truly precious to the people around her, then this design will recall exactly that. A sibling or a child will recognize it not as a symbol of status, but as the name that was spoken in your house for a lifetime. It serves as a quiet acknowledgment of the way she was celebrated through every milestone.

A family will see her in that old, well-kept photograph, standing on a stage in her crown and smiling at the crowd.

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