Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Jewellery, Rooms 91, The William and Judith Bollinger Gallery

Model

1982 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Len Wilcox, the son of a diamond mounter, worked in London and Geneva, For many years he taught at the Sir John Cass School of Art and its successor institutions. He made the sequence shown here as a teaching aid. It shows the stages of manufacture by hand of a solitaire ring (Museum nos. M.235 to 250-2007). The ninth one shows the square wire for the shank of the ring milled to make it thinner and longer.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Nickel alloy
Brief description
Square wire for shank of ring milled thinner and longer. 9th stage of fifteen showing the making of a finger ring. Made by Len Wilcox, England, 1982.
Physical description
Longer piece of square-section wire. One of fifteen demonstration models mounted on blue perspex.
Dimensions
  • Height: 3mm
  • Length: 48mm
Summary
Len Wilcox, the son of a diamond mounter, worked in London and Geneva, For many years he taught at the Sir John Cass School of Art and its successor institutions. He made the sequence shown here as a teaching aid. It shows the stages of manufacture by hand of a solitaire ring (Museum nos. M.235 to 250-2007). The ninth one shows the square wire for the shank of the ring milled to make it thinner and longer.
Collection
Accession number
M.243-2007

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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