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{{Short description|German goldsmith}}[[Image:Antoine Pesne 004.jpg|thumb|230px|In Dinglinger's portrait by Antoine Pesne, c. 1721, the entrepreneur, swathed in furs, displays his richly-mounted translucent chalcedony ''Dianabad'' ([[Hermitage Museum|Hermitage]], St Petersburg).]]
'''Johann Melchior Dinglinger''' (26 December 1664 –6 March 1731) was one of Europe's greatest [[goldsmith]]s, whose major works for the elector of Saxony, [[Augustus the Strong]], survived in the [[Grünes Gewölbe]] (the "Green Vaults"), [[Dresden]].<ref>Reopened in September 2004 in the Dresden ''Residenz'', as the ''Neues Grünes Gewölbe''.</ref>
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.<ref>Later masters, like [[Carl Fabergé]], were essentially miniaturists.</ref> His work carries on in a [[Mannerism|Mannerist]] tradition into the "[[Rococo|Age of Rococo]]".
==Biography==
Dinglinger was born in [[Biberach an der Riß]] (today in [[Baden-Württemberg]]). 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. In the workshop he established, he was assisted by his younger brothers, the enameller '''Georg Friedrich Dinglinger''' (1666–1720) and '''Georg Christoph Dinglinger''' (1668–1728), who specialized in cutting and setting jewels. The sculptor [[Balthasar Permoser]] collaborated as a modeller in Dinglinger's workshops. Dinglinger's sister [[Sophie Dinglinger|Sophie]] was also an artist.<ref name="Propert1887">{{cite book|author=[[John Lumsden Propert]]|title=A History of Miniature Art: With Notes on Collectors and Collections|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofminiatu00prop|year=1887|publisher=Macmillan and Company|pages=[https://archive.org/details/historyofminiatu00prop/page/161 161]–}}</ref>
Dinglinger married five times<ref>Antoine Pesne's portrait of his fourth wife, Susanna Guterman (1698-1726), the pendant to the portrait illustrating this article, both painted to commemorate their marriage in 1721, is also at the [[Hermitage Museum]].</ref> 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]]. He died in [[Dresden]].
==Works==
[[File:Hofstaat zu Delhi am Geburtstag des Großmoguls01.jpg|thumb|The Mughal imperial palace at Delhi (1701–1708)]]
[[Image:Bad der Diana Grünes Gewölbe Dresden.jpg|thumb|180px|''Bath of Diana'']]
Dinglinger's major works, all for Augustus:
*1697–1701 The ''Golden Coffee Service'',<ref>It will be recalled that Augustus was also the patron and main impetus behind the luxury production of the first European true [[porcelain]], at [[Meissen]]. The solid gold of the ''Goldene Kaffeezeug'' cups would have efficiently transmitted the heat of coffee to scald a potential drinker's fingers.</ref> which presents the cups and saucers and sugar bowls on an elaborate pyramidal etagère surmounted by the coffeepot, all in enamelled gold, a ''kabinettstuck'' unique in Europe. Augustus took the recently completed ensemble with him to [[Warsaw]] at Christmas 1701, to dazzle the nobles of the [[
*''The Birthday of the Grand
*1704 ''Dianabad'' (The "Bath of Diana"), in which a [[chalcedony]] bowl in a filigree is supported between the horns of a stag's head.
*1722 ''Obeliscus Augustalis''
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*[http://art.thewalters.org/viewwoa.aspx?id=34522 Walters Art Museum: a cup by Dinglinger]
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