Johann Melchior Dinglinger

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.

He served his apprenticeship in Ulm, after which he refined his techniques working as a journeyman in Augsburg, Nuremberg and Vienna, three traditional centers of luxury arts.

He went to Dresden in 1692, where he spent the rest of his career in the service of Augustus, by whom he was appointed court jeweller in 1698.

[3] Dinglinger married five times[4] and had twenty-three children, of whom eleven survived to maturity.

The famous house he erected in Dresden was burned in the Seven Years' War.

In Dinglinger's portrait by Antoine Pesne, c. 1721, the entrepreneur, swathed in furs, displays his richly-mounted translucent chalcedony Dianabad ( Hermitage , St Petersburg).
The Mughal imperial palace at Delhi (1701–1708)
Bath of Diana