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Scandal

Charles Sargeant Jagger, 1930

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.

More information

Title of artwork, date

Scandal, 1930

Date supported

2007

Medium and material

Bronze

Dimensions

161.4 x 149 cm

Grant

30813

Total cost

84842

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