Sara Jocelyn Margarita Elissa Burton was an award-winning British silver and goldsmith.
15 Facts About Jocelyn Burton
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Jocelyn Burton was born in Wales in 1946 and was the daughter of RAF officer Roland Burton.
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Jocelyn Burton instead enrolled in a jewellery design program and studied silversmithing in evening courses.
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In 1971, after early successes and awards, Jocelyn Burton set up her own studio and workshop in London.
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Jocelyn Burton died after a long battle with cancer, in Boston Lincolnshire on 5 April 2020, aged 74.
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Jocelyn Burton's commissions include a silver table fountain for the Fishmongers' Company, an 18 carat gold and sapphire chain for the Butchers' Company, an offertory salver for Lichfield Cathedral and a centerpiece commissioned by Sir Roy Strong to launch the permanently exhibited modern plate collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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Beyond her major commissions, Jocelyn Burton has created a range of domestic silver as well as jewellery using gold, silver, precious and semi-precious stones.
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In 1968, at the very beginning of her career, Jocelyn Burton won the De Beers International Award for the design of diamond jewellery.
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In 1995, Jocelyn Burton won the United Kingdom Jeweller Award for best design in silver.
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Jocelyn Burton had the first piece of platinum to be hallmarked at the London Assay Office in 1973 when hallmarking for platinum was introduced under the Hallmarking Act of 1973 and platinum became a recognized metal under the Vienna Convention on the Control of the Fineness and the Hallmarking of Precious Metal Objects.
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Jocelyn Burton became a freeman of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths in 1974.
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In 2003, Jocelyn Burton was the first woman to receive the City and Guilds of London Institute top award, the Prince Philip Medal.
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Jocelyn Burton was a member of The People's Supermarket, opened in Lamb's Conduit Street by Arthur Potts Dawson in 2010.
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Jocelyn Burton regularly appeared in the Channel 4 documentary of the same name in 2011.
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In 2012, Jocelyn Burton appeared on Radio 4's Midweek program for an interview, celebrating 40 years of her career.