Cooler for glass tumblers, with serrated edge and resting on three feet, trimmed with blue and gold borders and gold fillets.

The central decoration is contained within a gold and blue frame, and depicts a view of two palaces in Rome: the Quirinale Palace on one side, and Madama Palace on the other.

The shape of this cooler reveals the growing influence of the canons of the Imperial style, as testified by the three lion feet used as the base on which the cooler rests. Ginori Lisci himself writes that this was a rather rare style (Ginori Lisci L., 1963, pag. 314).

The decoration belongs to the type known as "services with views", probably identifiable with the services "a vedute miniate con fascia bleu" [illustrated with views and having a blue band] mentioned in the production lists for the years between 1810 and 1825 (Ginori Lisci L., 1963, p. 310).

The execution of the decoration of these services was not always of the same level of refinement, as a number of different painters worked on the production.

The best exemplars are attributable to the hand of Ferdinando Ammannati, who arrived in Doccia in 1808 after the closure of the Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea [Royal Factory of Ferdinand] (Ginori Lisci L., 1963, p. 101). (A.d'A) .