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# Presumed design for a mirror commissioned by Alexander I from the jeweller Odiot
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- Published: 2024-05-07T13:22:10.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:40:41.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archive, Art, Monarchies, Mores

"A Dressing Table, Comprising a Gilt Mirror Whose Crown Is the Toilette of Venus"

This is believed to be a design for the decorative part of a precious mirror commissioned from the French goldsmith Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot by Tsar Alexander I himself for his mistress between 1815 and 1819.

The piece is a variation on the "à la Vénus" mirror, which Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot, head of the celebrated jewellery house of Odiot (which still exists today), went on producing until the end of his career

![](https://theparnassian.com/content/images/2026/09/photo_12137@07-05-2024_16-22-10.jpg)