An important pair of crystal vases, probably by Baccarat, each featuring a crystal-ceramics portrait of the Duchess and the Duc de Berri. Signed by Desprez, rue des Récolets, Paris. France Circa 1816. H. 31cm Charles Ferdinand d'Artois, Duc de Berri (1778-1820) was the younger brother of Charles X, King of France, and his wife Marie-Thérèse de Savoie. During the French Revolution, the Duc de Berri served in the army under his cousin Louis V Joseph de Bourbon-Condé. He lived in England from 1801 to 1814, until his return to France. In England, he married Amy Brown Freeman, but the marriage was annulled in 1814. In 1816 he married Marie Caroline Ferdinande Louise, (1798-1870) the eldest daughter of Francis I, King of the Two Sicilies (1777-1830). Charles Ferdinand, Duc de Berri, was assassinated in February 1820. Seven months later, the duchess gave birth to a son, the Duc de Bordeaux, better known as the Comte de Chambord. Following CharlesX's abdication in 1830, the Duchesse de Berri attempted to place her son on the French throne. She failed in this attempt and was imprisoned for three years in the citadel of Blaye. After her release, she joined her second husband, Count Hector Charles Lucchesi Palli, in Sicily, whom she had secretly married in 1831.