Presumed design for a mirror commissioned by Alexander I from the jeweller Odiot

"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

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