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Among all the motifs of funerary art, the figure of a child demands the most of a designer: one line too many and tenderness turns to sweetness, one too few and a stranger's child looks out from the plaque. Yet a family choosing the image of a child wants to see their own in it: that fringe, that gesture, that evening prayer. That is why we drew the child figures more slowly and more carefully than any other designs in our range.
In this category we have gathered all of our designs in which a child is the subject: a kneeling little one in evening prayer (deliberately without wings, so that he remains simply a child), silhouettes of a boy and a girl under the wings of a Guardian Angel in two versions, and child cherubs in whom parents and grandparents have seen their own little ones for generations. Every design is cut from stainless steel in two sizes and four finishes.
Below you will find a guide to the entire children's gallery: we explain where these motifs come from and why they resonate so strongly, show the difference between a child and a little angel on a plaque, and suggest compositions for small and large slabs. At the end there is an FAQ with answers to the questions most often asked when making this choice, asked quietly, because this is the most delicate corner of our range.
Most families saying goodbye to a little one reach for indirect signs: a little angel, a heart, a star, and these are good, proven choices. An image of the child alone is a bolder decision: the plaque carries not a symbol of loss, but a portrait of presence. A kneeling figure with a bowed head tells visitors plainly “our child is here,” without metaphors, but with all the tenderness that cut steel is capable of.
This directness has its reward: parents tell us that with such an image it is easier to speak to the child, and not only about him. The figure becomes the one who receives the morning “hello, darling” and the evening “good night,” which no symbol can accept so naturally. That is why we design the figures to be universal, with short hair and a simple shirt, so that every family can see its own child in them, and the inscription and the heart of the one looking do the rest.
Praying children above children's beds are, alongside the Guardian Angel, the most tender image in Polish homes. It hung above the cradles of grandmothers, mothers and grandchildren, teaching the first words of the prayer. Our image of a little one praying on a pillow deliberately takes up this tradition: anyone who remembers that picture from childhood will recognize the mood at first glance. On a gravestone the classic gains a new, moving meaning: the evening prayer goes on, it has only changed its address.
The strength of this motif lies in the ritual it recreates. A shared prayer before sleep is often the last memory a family cherishes most tenderly: folded little hands, closed eyes, a pillow. The image holds this scene forever and turns it into a place of meeting: visitors involuntarily finish the words of a prayer they know by heart. It is hard to find a decoration that so quietly invites a shared moment with the child.
In the scenes with the Guardian Angel we used a device that has become the hallmark of this collection: the figures of the children remain openwork, filled by the stone of the gravestone, while the guardian is made of luminous steel. The boy and the girl holding hands have no drawn faces, and that is exactly why they have the faces of all the children the viewer is thinking of. Here the granite does what no drawing can: it lets every family see its own.
This contrast of materials also carries a quiet theology: what is earthly and fragile rests safely in the shadow of what is eternal. In the evening, when the steel catches the glow of the candles, the guardian's hands seem to shine above the dark silhouettes, a scene that is hard to look at without emotion. You will find both versions in this category, calm in a frame and dynamic in the bend of the figure; they differ in temperament, and are united by the pair of children at the very heart of the composition.
The child motif has its original model in sacred art: the Infant Jesus. In our range, the little Jesus appears wherever tenderness meets holiness – in the arms of the Madonna, on the shoulder of Saint Joseph, in the embrace of Saint Anthony, in the traveling bundle of the Holy Family fleeing to Egypt. Families saying goodbye to a little one often choose exactly these scenes: they entrust the child to arms that have carried the most precious Child for two thousand years.
You will find images with the Infant in the Marian and patron saints categories – we mention them here because they complete the children's story of our range: beside portraits of earthly children stands the Child who gave childhood a divine dignity. Their meeting on a single slab can make a beautiful composition: a praying child below, the Madonna with Child above – two prayers, a child's and a mother's, in one frame of the gravestone.
We design child figures with small plaques in mind: the smaller of the two sizes keeps the right proportions in relation to a short inscription and a porcelain photo, while the larger lets the image preside over a family slab. Proven layouts are a figure beside the name with a tender inscription made of our steel letters – "Sleep well, little Angel", "We love you", just the pet name – and a pairing of the image with a heart beside the dates. Satin and polished finishes go most gently with porcelain; black gives a crisp, book-like line on light terrazzo.
Contrary to appearances, images of children for gravestones are ordered not only for children's plaques. Families also choose them for the graves of people who died young – as a portrait of the age at which the heart remembers them – and for grandparents' gravestones, where a praying child becomes an image of the grandchildren and of the deceased's childlike faith. If, however, you are looking for the full choice of decorations for a child's plaque, all motifs – from little angels to hearts – see the category devoted entirely to children's graves; the two collections overlap and complement each other.
By the wings – and by everything behind them: a little angel says "our little intercessor in heaven", a child without wings says "he is still our little one, simply praying". Both languages are true and we offer both; the choice depends on which thought a family's heart can more easily carry day to day.
Yes – it is a rarer but beautiful choice: on the gravestones of those who died young, the image preserves the age at which their loved ones remember them, and on grandparents' graves a praying child can stand for the grandchildren or for the childlike faith the deceased kept to the end. The inscription supplies the context.
From the classic devotional pictures that have hung above children's beds for over a century – praying children were a fixture of Polish homes alongside the Guardian Angel. Our design brings this household classic to granite, keeping its mood of the evening prayer.
That is exactly how they are most often read – a boy and a girl holding hands become a portrait of siblings, cousins or a friendship cut short too soon. Deliberately featureless, the granite silhouettes take on the names a family gives them.
Our figures have a nominal age of a few years, which makes them adaptable: for younger children, families read the future into them; for older ones, a memory. When an infant is lost, a sleeping little angel or a heart is more often chosen; for a preschooler or older child, a praying child in whom it is easy to see a particular little one.
These are two different kinds of comfort: a portrait of the child says "you are here with us," while a scene of the Child in the arms of Mary or Joseph says "you are in the best of arms." Many families combine both on one gravestone; if you are choosing one, let yourself be guided by which message you would like to read at every visit.
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