Trieste Pewter Infant Urn

The Trieste is a small brass vessel, four inches tall, with a lid that threads down onto the top. Brass gives it real weight in the hand, more than the size suggests, and the metal keeps its colour indoors for decades with nothing more than an occasional dusting.

Four cubic inches of capacity works out to an infant of roughly four pounds, or a token portion of ashes from an older child or an adult. That makes it a keepsake rather than a full size urn, so it suits a shelf, a memory box, or a niche where several small pieces sit together. Fill it through the top with a funnel and thread the lid back down by hand until it stops.

• Holds 4 cu in, about four pounds of body weight under the standard rule
• Threaded top lid, no adhesive needed to close it
• Cast brass, so a knock is more likely to mark the finish than dent the body