from the property of Duke Clemens August of Bavaria, Archbishop of Cologne and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire (1723-1761)
Bautzen, around 1740, probably Johann Adolf Borns (1689-1760)
Silver, inspection mark Bautzen, around 1740, master's mark JB, assayer's mark (“Tremolierstich”).
All four candlesticks wear the armorial engraving of Elector Clemens August.
Upper Lusatia, with its old capital Bautzen, was home to the only united Catholic, mostly Sorbian settlements under Saxon rule. The Apostolic nuncio responsible for these Catholics living in the diaspora was based in Cologne after 1715, until another Apostolic Vicariate was established in Saxony in 1743.
Height: 14.5 cm, total weight: 822 g
Marc Rosenberg, “Der Goldschmiede Merkzeichen”, 4 vols., Frankfurt a. M. 1922-1928, no. 1141 and 1145










