Johann Melchior Dinglinger (1664-1731)

"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, 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)