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# Beyoncé Donates Bejeweled Butterfly Ring to Victoria & Albert Museum
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/beyonce-donates-ring-victoria-albert-museum/
- Published: 2018-05-11T16:33:20.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:39:22.000Z
- Description: The superstar's scintillating Glenn Spiro 'Papillon' ring is now on view in the V&A's jewelry galleries.
- Author: Benjamin Sutton
- Tags: In Brief, Acquisitions, Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Jewelry, Victoria & Albert Museum, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-18 14:37 (2018)

![Beyoncé wearing the ‘Papillon’ ring designed by Glenn Spiro (photo by Jay-Z)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2018/05/beyonce-papillon-ring-vanda-4.jpg)

Beyoncé wearing the ‘Papillon’ ring designed by Glenn Spiro (photo by Jay-Z)

[Beyoncé](https://hyperallergic.com/tag/beyonce/) must really like the Victoria & Albert Museum, because she just put a ring on it. The superstar has donated an extravagant ring in the shape of a butterfly to the London museum, where it went on view today.

![‘Papillon’ ring designed by Glenn Spiro (© Victoria and Albert Museum, London)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2018/05/beyonce-papillon-ring-vanda-1.jpg)

‘Papillon’ ring designed by Glenn Spiro (© Victoria and Albert Museum, London)

The ring, a 2014 piece by London-based jewelry designer [Glenn Spiro](http://www.glennspiro.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com), features wings made of titanium filled with green [tsavorites](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsavorite?ref=hyperallergic.com) and with diamonds around their edges. According to the [*Guardian*](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/may/11/beyonce-donates-giant-butterfly-ring-jay-z-to-london-v-and-a-museum?ref=hyperallergic.com), it was a gift from her husband, rapper [Jay-Z](https://hyperallergic.com/tag/jay-z/), who also took a pair of photographs of Beyoncé wearing the ornate accessory. The ring is now on view in the London museum’s [William and Judith Bollinger Gallery](https://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/jewellery?ref=hyperallergic.com), which showcases the history of jewelry from Ancient Greece to today through some 3,000 choice pieces from the V&A’s unparalleled collection.

“Beyoncé is a figure whose personal style the V&A is proud to represent, and a gift from whose personal collection we are honored to receive,” Clare Phillips, the V&A’s jewelry curator, said in a statement. “The papillon ring she has gifted is an exquisite example of contemporary jewelry design by one of Britain’s master jewelers.”

![Beyoncé wearing the ‘Papillon’ ring designed by Glenn Spiro (photo by Jay-Z)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2018/05/beyonce-papillon-ring-vanda-5.jpg)

Beyoncé wearing the ‘Papillon’ ring designed by Glenn Spiro (photo by Jay-Z)

![‘Papillon’ ring designed by Glenn Spiro (© Victoria and Albert Museum, London)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2018/05/beyonce-papillon-ring-vanda-2.jpg)

‘Papillon’ ring designed by Glenn Spiro (© Victoria and Albert Museum, London)

![‘Papillon’ ring designed by Glenn Spiro (© Victoria and Albert Museum, London)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2018/05/beyonce-papillon-ring-vanda-1.jpg)

‘Papillon’ ring designed by Glenn Spiro (© Victoria and Albert Museum, London)