Pepple Studio
Hand-painted design

Sleeping Pet Urns on a Cloud Pillow

This design has your pet sculpted curled up and asleep on a small cloud pillow, sitting on the lid of the urn. It is the theme we make most often, and the one people ask for when they want the piece to look like rest rather than loss.

Made to order · 4–7 weeks · ships worldwide

Sleeping Cloud ceramic pet urn with a hand-sculpted figurine on the lid

Why people choose sleeping cloud

Almost every owner has one particular image of their animal asleep — a specific corner of the sofa, a patch of sun on the floor, the foot of the bed. That is usually the memory people want kept, rather than anything more ceremonial.

Sculpting an animal asleep is also, quietly, easier to get right than sculpting one alert. A sleeping pose is about weight and curve rather than expression, and the likeness lands more reliably.

Pieces we have made

Sleeping Cloud pet urn shown from the side
Close-up of the sleeping cloud detail on a handmade ceramic urn
Sleeping Cloud urn lid with the sculpted pet figurine
Sleeping Cloud pet urn shown next to a hand for scale

Product images are digital visualisations, not photographs of finished pieces. Every piece is genuinely made by hand in our studio, and because of that yours will differ from what you see here.

Yours will differ — each figurine is sculpted from your own pet's photos.

How this design is made

The cloud is thrown as a shallow rounded form and the figurine is built directly onto it, so the body appears to sink into it slightly. Getting that compression right is the whole trick — a pet sitting flat on top of a cloud looks stuck on.

Tails wrap around the body where the breed allows. For long-coated animals we cut the fur texture in with a fine tool after the main form is dry enough to hold detail.

The cloud is left white or very pale so the animal reads as the subject rather than competing with the base.

Read more: How we sculpt your pet by hand

Best suited to
Owners who want something gentle and unmistakably restful, and anyone unsure which theme to pick — this is our safest recommendation.
Typical palette
White or barely-blue cloud, with the animal in its own colouring.
Material
High-fired ceramic, fired at 1200°C
Sizes
S, M and L — size guide

Order this design

Any of our urns can be made in the sleeping cloud style — mention it when you order, or just send a photo of the piece above and say "like this one".

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