#Reiner Winkler Collection

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Fury on a Leaping Horse - Ivory and bone, sculpted by the so-called Master of the Furies, Salzburg, c. 1610

Liebieghaus Sculpture Museum, Frankfurt, Germany

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Profile Portrait of Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria - 18th century ivory relief in a tortoiseshell frame with inlays of ivory and mother-of-pearl

Liebieghaus Sculpture Museum, Frankfurt, Germany

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Allegory of Damnation in Hell - Ivory, by Johann Christoph Ludwig Lücke, Dresden, 1736

The Reiner Winkler Collection, Liebieghaus Sculpture Museum, Frankfurt, Germany

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The Three Parcae, ivory, Joachim Henne, 1670

The Reiner Winkler Collection, Liebieghaus Sculpture Museum, Frankfurt, Germany

In Roman mythology, the Parcae were the female personifications of Destiny. They are often called the Fates in English. Their Greek equivalents were the Moirai. They controlled the "thread of life" of every mortal and immortal. Even the gods feared the Parcae.

Nona spun the thread of life on her spindle, Decima measured the thread of life, and Morta cut the thread of life and chose the way a person would die.

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Chronos on the Globe, Ivory and lapis lazuli, made in Vienna by Matthias Steinl c. 1720

The Reiner Winkler Collection, Liebieghaus Sculpture Museum, Frankfurt, Germany

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Scene with Bacchus, the God of Wine - Carved ivory lit from behind, by Ignaz Elhafen, c. 1700, Vienna

The Reiner Winkler Collection, Liebieghaus Sculpture Museum, Frankfurt, Germany