Stained Glass
This is part of a much larger window on the main staircase leading from the Great Hall to the upper level in Old Government House.
View all photos taken: Friday, 13th April 2007, This photo: 1:24pm
This is part of a much larger window on the main staircase leading from the Great Hall to the upper level in Old Government House.
View all photos taken: Friday, 13th April 2007, This photo: 1:24pm
I actually like this red stained glass. Too bad it is broken.
Well it's not exactly new, and those State Governors are a rowdy bunch ;-) This pane may date from the early part of last century.
That's what I like about it. I think old stained glass are really nice and I like the redness. Reminds me of Venetian wine glass. I guess they'll be removing it and probablly change it to new one.
I love red glass, it's just so...umm...red! :-)
I would say the glass will remain, since it's of historical significance.
The glass reminds me very much of the glass in some of the earlly 20th century Brisbane trams. At one stage (I think during the Second World War) the glass was removed from the trams, and a lot of it went missing or was destroyed before it could be replaced. The glass in Car 47 was cobbled together from several sources.
The tram glass is probably unrelated to the Old Government House glass, but there was obviously a fashion for glass of this type.
Ah yes I recall that glass in that tram. I have a really crappy photo of it somewhere (taken with our first dig-cam years ago).
I think the whole coloured glass thing was fairly big during that era, after all it's pretty, and there was still room for artisans in industrial design. Now the "mighty dollar" rules the roost.