France, Sévres Silhouette, Duchesse de Berri, hard paste biscuit porcelain silhoutte portrait, circa 1820, modelled by Brachard, signed “Prachard f”. Very fine (£100-150)

Caroline, Duchesse de Berri, daughter of Francis I of Naples. After the fall of Charles X in the revolution of 1830, the Duchesse attempted to swing support in favour for her son Henri, the young Bourbon pretender. In 1832 an armed counted-revolution failed miserably and no further attempts were contemplated