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A funerary urn with a weeping willow bending over it.
Also known as: Willow and urn, Weeping willow gravestone motif
An urn beneath a drooping willow. The motif that displaced the soul effigy around 1800 and defined gravestone carving for a generation, and the last term in the death's head → cherub → urn-and-willow sequence used to date stones.
A classical urn with a weeping willow bending over it, the dominant gravestone motif from around 1800 through the earlier nineteenth century.
Britain and North America · c. 1800 onward · Contexts: History
The final term in the death's head → soul effigy → urn-and-willow sequence, which is documented in dated burial grounds and is the standard basis for dating an illegible stone by its carving.
The willow's drooping habit gives it a long association with grief in European art independent of gravestones, and it appears in mourning embroidery and prints of the same period.
A lidded urn on a plinth with a willow beside it whose long thin branches curve downward over the urn.
The urn-and-willow motif pairs the same urn with an overhanging willow.