A FRANKENTHAL WHITE PORCELAIN MYTHOLOGICAL FIGURE GROUP, THE THREE FATES, 1770 |

modelled by Franz Konrad Linck, Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos, seated among clouds measuring the thread of life, with three putti at the base, crowned CT monogram in underglaze-blue over numeral 70

In generally good appearance. There has been professional restoration carried out on the vulnerable extremities of the model. Starting from the left of the illustration, the left figure's right foot, left finger tips, and crown, the middle figure's left foot, the scissors she holds, and crown. The right figure's left fingers, her crown, and right foot. There is some spray to the middle figure's drapery which may be covering a firing crack. Some firing cracks which have extended with traces of filling at time of production.
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At least two other examples of this rare model are recorded, both painted in enamels, one is in the Metropolitan museum of Art, New York gifted by R. Thornton Wilson, acc. no. 52.2.5; the other is published by Friedrich H. Hofmann, Frankenthaler Porzellan, Band I, Munich, 1911, taf. 71, no. 304, as being in the collection of Schloss Bamberg. Linck modelled a group of the Three Graces, which was likely the pendant to the present model, see Hofmann, ibid., taf. 71, no. 303.