© Victoria and Albert Museum
Scandal
Artist: Charles Sargeant Jagger (1885 - 1934)
Location: Victoria and Albert Museum
Date: 1930
Materials: bronze
Dimensions: 161.4 x 149cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £30,813 (Total: £78,265)
Vendor: Christie's
Review number: 5947 (2007)
Provenance:
Commissioned by Lord and Lady Melchett; by descent; Jo Martins and Bruno Frost; Sotheby's, 1986; Chiu Gallery; Robin Roberts; Christie's, New York.
Description:
The relief depicts a naked couple embracing with an audience of disapproving elders in the background. This work is the companion piece to the cast iron Melchett fire basket which was acquired by the V&A with Art Fund help in 2005. Both were commissioned by Henry Mond, later the second Lord Melchett, as a part of a decorative remodelling for the drawing room in Mulberry House, Smith Square, Westminster. Jagger arranged the figures of the lovers in a dynamic zigzag composition, flattened against the composition in a playful reference to an Assyrian relief.
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