HENRY WILSON 1864-1934
Rare Arts & Crafts Ring
Gold & pearl
Length: 1.7 cm  Width: 2 cm  (Length: 0.6 in)
English. Circa 1900
Literature: cf. Jewelry & Metalwork in the Arts & Crafts Tradition
Elyse Zorn Karlin, 1993
Documented: Volume of  Henry Wilson’s Designs for Jewellery & Silverwork, in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum
Department of Prints & Drawings
Accession number: E.669 to 150-1955
Henry Wilson, a leading figure in the British Arts & Crafts movement, was described by C.R. Ashbee as the ‘arch individualist’. Wilson was a trained architect. He taught metalwork at the Central School of Arts & Crafts from 1896 & the Royal College of Art from 1901. His definitive textbook ‘Silver work & Jewellery’ was published in 1903. The following was written of him ‘Henry Wilson’s originality stemmed from his ability to combine the strictest disciplines of his craft with a multitudinous variety of influences, resulting in some of the most daringly individual jewels of the period’.
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