A FRANKENTHAL WHITE GROUP OF THE THREE FATES modelled by Konrad Link spinning and allotting the thread of life, the central figure Atropos holding a pair of shears and reclining among clouds, flanked by her two companions, Clotho with a distaff and Lachesis, a spindle resting on a cloud and with three children around the base, holding a basket of flowers, reading and praying for their destiny (extended firing cracks, the central figure with her left foot lacking and chips to extremeties), blue crowned interlaced CT mark and date code 79 for 1779
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A FRANKENTHAL WHITE GROUP OF THE THREE FATES modelled by Konrad Link spinning and allotting the thread of life, the central figure Atropos holding a pair of shears and reclining among clouds, flanked by her two companions, Clotho with a distaff and Lachesis, a spindle resting on a cloud and with three children around the base, holding a basket of flowers, reading and praying for their destiny (extended firing cracks, the central figure with her left foot lacking and chips to extremeties), blue crowned interlaced CT mark and date code 79 for 1779
24cm. high
Lot Essay
Cf. F.H. Hofmann, Frankenthaler Porzellan, pl. 71, no. 304 for a coloured example