Columbarium pot
The ashes in the lower body, closed with a screwed lid, and the plant on top. It fits in a house and forces nobody to explain anything to visitors.
The problem with an urn is not where to put it. It is that everyone can see what it is.
Plenty of people take the ashes home and find there is no good place to leave them. In the living room it turns the whole room into a permanent site of mourning, and putting it in a cupboard produces a different kind of guilt. The object announces the situation every time somebody walks in, and that is not always a conversation you want to have. The invention splits the two functions into a single object: a sealed lower body, closed with a screwed lid, where the ashes go, and on top an ordinary pot with its plant. Those who know, know. Those who do not, see a plant.
Two volumes, one object
The screwed lid is not a finishing detail: it is what turns the assembly into a closed receptacle that can be handled without exposing the contents when the plant is changed or watered.
Discretion as a function
It is not a disguised urn, it is a domestic object that also performs that function. The difference is that nobody has to pretend not to see it.
From the same root
It came from the same question as the modular columbarium and was filed eight days later: what does a family take home, and what do they have to explain for taking it.
Lower body, screwed lid and pot