An important offering of Australian Silver & Gold, Rare Photographs & Documents, Furniture, Pottery, Jewellery and Paintings.

Many of the items from Dr Lennon’s personal collection have never been to market.

Please contact the office to register your interest in this remarkable collection.

Contents
001-080 Silver & Gold
081-104 Jewellery
105-317 General
318-325 Furniture
326-357 Pottery
358-362 Glass
363-474 Photographs
475-499 Books & Historical Documents
500-514 Politics
515-526 Military
527-580 Paintings & Other Artworks

Jane Lennon has a PhD in art history from the University of Sydney. From 1985 to 1991 she worked as a researcher and staff writer at the Power Institute of Fine Arts at the University of Sydney for Professor Joan Kerr’s Dictionary of Australian Artists: Painters, Sketchers, Photographers and Engravers to 1870 (Melbourne 1992); from 1992-1993 she continued in the same roles for Kerr’s Heritage: The National Women’s Art Book (Melbourne 1995). She was a research consultant for the Museum of Sydney in 1994 to 1995 and this was followed by a stint as an assistant curator at the Powerhouse Museum, researching an exhibition on the history of colonial gold held at the Mint Museum in Macquarie Street.

During 1996 and 1997 she pursued a Churchill Fellowship that enabled her to investigate early Australian colonial art in British archives and a Harold Wright Scholarship for the study of prints and drawings at the British Museum. After returning to Australia, she worked as a staff writer for, and co-editor of, The Australian Antique Collector and its successor The World of Antiques and Art until 2003, when she purchased a rambling 1840s sandstone building in Elizabeth Street, Hobart. Here Lennon traded by appointment in rooms on the first floor as Ancanthe [An-can-the], named for Lady Franklin’s Museum (which opened in 1843 and still stands in Lenah Valley, Hobart).

She has written and lectured on Australian historical subjects and currently has several long-gestating research projects in progress. She is holding this sale with the aim of it affording her the time and wherewithal to finally complete them.

Illustrated: (Detail)
Lot 11
An important Australian solid yellow high carat gold snuff box, finely engraved with foliate design and Aboriginal figure hunting an emu, engraved “PRESENTED TO J. T. ROBINSON ESQ. M.D. BY HIS FRIENDS AT CLUNES, VICTORIA AS A TOKEN OF THEIR RESPECT AND ESTEEM WON DURING A RESIDENCE THERE OF FOURTEEN YEARS. 15 AUG.t. 1871”,
7cm wide, 93.4 grams
Est: $25,000-35,000