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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.
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