A Frankenthal white group of the three Fates, circa 1770Modelled by Franz Conrad Linck with the three Moirai, Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos, seated amongst clouds, spinning, measuring and cutting the thread of life, a small putto kneeling at the front of the base, 24cm high, crowned CT monogram and 70(?) in underglaze-blue (some restoration)注脚The model is considered to be the counterpart of a group depicting the Graces, illustrated in B. Beaucamp-Markowsky, Frankenthaler Porzellan, vol. I (2008), no. 242. It is mentioned that the 1777 Mannheim price lists of the factory lists both groups for 30 Gulden. Coloured examples of the Fates can be found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (inv. no. 52.2.5) and the Residenzmuseum in Munich (inv. no. Res. Mü. K.I. Fra. 103).