This glazed pottery urn, sealed with a cork and probably containing the ashes of a bail, was created by Janet Lady Clarke. It was presented by Janet Clarke to England cricket captain Honourable Ivo Bligh (afterwards Lord Darnley) as a gift during the English team’s tour of Australia in 1882–83. It was an impromptu gift and the origin of the urn itself is uncertain. It may have been a trinket, possibly a perfume bottle, picked up by the Clarke family in their travels. Attached is a hand-written label, ‘The Ashes’, and below it a poem cut from Melbourne Punch dated 1 February 1883. Around 1945 the urn was mounted onto an ash wood base by Lord’s groundsman ‘Bosser’ Martin.