A Frankenthal white porcelain mythological figure group, The three Fates, 1770
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
24cm., 9 1/2 in. high
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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.
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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
24cm., 9 1/2 in. high
Provenance:
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.
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