Love this unusual, ornate and rather appropriate column capital in the former Institition of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Glasgow. Designed by John B. Wilson and constructed in 1907, the building's now occupied by Scottish Opera. The ship under full sail is a particularly nice detail.
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A gorgeous bit of plasterwork wall decoration from Pollok House in Glasgow featuring a range of tropical sea shells, including Queen Conch, Helmet Conch, Horse Conch and Cowries.
This most likely reflects the Victorian mania for collecting all sorts of things, including sea shells. However, it may also reflect links between the family which owned Pollok House and slave plantations on St Kitts in the West Indies where many of these shells can be found.
Some of the amazing guilded plasterwork on one of the ceilings of the 1880s City Chambers in central Glasgow.
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