"Johann Melchior Dinglinger (26 December 1664 –6 March 1731) was one of Europe´s greatest goldsmiths, whose major works for the elector of Saxony, Augustus the Strong, ...
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survived in the Grünes Gewölbe (the "Green Vaults"), Dresden.
Dinglinger was the last goldsmith to work on the grand scale of Benvenuto Cellini and Wenzel Jamnitzer, fewer of whose large-scale works in precious materials have survived, however. His work carries on in a Mannerist tradition into the "Age of Rococo"." - (en.wikipedia.org 31.10.2019)