Otto Christian Sahler (died Berlin, aged 77 in 1810), from a well-known family of Augsburg goldsmiths, worked as a chaser, engraver, wax modeler and hardstone carver. He had trained as a goldsmith in Augsburg before moving to Dresden where he worked from 1752 as a modeler. Before 1770 he is known to have moved to Berlin where he worked on portrait waxes of the Prussian Royal and Russian Imperial families.