Australia’s Largest Range of Antique Ceramics, plus more!
Moorabool Antiques
Situated in Geelong, Victoria, Australia, Moorabool Antiques was founded in 1958 by the late John Rosenberg.
Today it offers a vast range of Genuine Antiques from the Victorian, Georgian & earlier periods, including Pottery & Porcelain, Glass, Silver, Old Sheffield, Artworks, Furniture, Australiana, Antiquities & Natural History.
We welcome visitors to our large 2-floor premises in central Geelong.
16 – 18 Ryrie St, Geelong Victoria 3220
HOURS
Monday – Closed – Open by Appointment only
Tuesday – Friday 10 am-5pm
Saturday 10am – 1pm
Sunday – Closed –
CONTACT:
ph (03) 52292 970
email – moorabool@gmail.com
Moorabool Auctions
Ph – 0494129983
Email – mooraboolauctions@gmail.com
Latest News:
AUCTION!
Moorabool is now conducting Auctions.
‘MOORABOOL AUCTIONS‘ holds a sale early each month. It’s all posted on Invaluable.com, the world-wide platform where the salesrooms for Antiques & Artworks flourishes.
For each sale, we have a large number of vendors, made up in these early days from the numerous items we have taken in on commission in the past few years. As we progress, there will be collections fresh to the market offered exclusively by Moorabool Auctions.
There’s Furniture, Silver, Jewellery, Artworks – and of course a stunning array of fine Ceramics & Glass.
Have a browse now….. you never know what you’ll find.
A New way to browse our artworks:
Artists in Stock – an alphabetical list of artists.
Note: doesn’t include unsigned, unattributed pieces.
Sale! items
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Product on sale
French joined armchair, paneled sides, flower carved crest & dated 1778Original price was: $5,400.00 AUD.$4,900.00 AUDCurrent price is: $4,900.00 AUD. -
Product on sale
Small Lowestoft basket, printed with the ‘Pinecone’ pattern, c.1770Original price was: $1,450.00 AUD.$950.00 AUDCurrent price is: $950.00 AUD. -
Product on sale
Spode ironstone rectangular platter, Imari Pattern #3504, c.1815Original price was: $550.00 AUD.$412.50 AUDCurrent price is: $412.50 AUD. -
Product on sale
Spode ironstone rectangular platter, Imari Pattern #3504, c.1815Original price was: $450.00 AUD.$337.50 AUDCurrent price is: $337.50 AUD. -
Product on sale
Spode ironstone rectangular platter, Imari Pattern #3504, c.1815Original price was: $400.00 AUD.$300.00 AUDCurrent price is: $300.00 AUD. -
Product on sale
Spode ironstone rectangular dish, Imari Pattern #3504, c.1815Original price was: $380.00 AUD.$285.00 AUDCurrent price is: $285.00 AUD.
Find your Niche….
Moorabool has a vast variety of items in stock, and finding your interests can be daunting.
To make it easier to browse our large stock, we have divided it up into categories, or ‘Departments’.
This means you can find your area of interest, wether it is Ceramics, Art, Glass, or Furniture, and look through our stock.
Use this drop-down to access the Stock Departments.
A search will also allow you to find more specific interests.
Premium Stock
A few of our ‘best-in-class’ pieces of stock.
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Frederick Strange – ‘View of Launceston’, Important Colonial Masterpiece c. 1858Sold -
Egyptian Royal Shabti Figure for Queen Henttawy, 19th DynastySold -
French Empire bronze boat-form inkwell, serpent handles, c. 1800$3,650.00 AUD -
Dihl and Guérhard covered cup & stand, fine neo-classical gilt decoration on ‘tortoise shell’ ground, c.1795$2,400.00 AUD -
Paris porcelain plate, painted in the Neoclassical taste, Nast C 1805$980.00 AUD
Freshest Stock
French joined armchair, paneled sides, flower carved crest & dated 1778
Original price was: $5,400.00 AUD.$4,900.00 AUDCurrent price is: $4,900.00 AUD.
Fresh Stock Blogs
We are constantly adding Fresh items to our Stock Departments.
See the Latest Uploads via our Fresh Stock blogs – along with other interesting newsworthy announcements.
Fresh stock October 7th
Fresh Stock uploaded to moorabool.com . You’ll find a fine and varied selection, from Georgian Furniture to fine 18th…
Premium Fresh Stock
Welcome to our selection of ‘the Best’ for the end of 2024. Some stunning rarities have come to us recently,…
Derby ‘Adolescent Seasons’
Moorabool has a fascinating group of Derby ‘Seasons’, modelled as children with their respective attributes. They make for an interesting…
Featured Items & Essays
Mademoiselle d’Jeck, a rare Staffordshire Figure of a Theatre Star
Mademoiselle d’Jeck was a 4-ton prima-donna…. appearing all across Europe & America in the earlier 19th century, she was…
David Roberts ‘Oberwesel’ 1829, re-discovered.
A local customer recently inherited a small number of Antiques from an uncle, including a most interesting oil painting. Set…
A Rare Pair: Meissen copies of Sèvres, by J.G. Loehnig, circa 1786
Sometimes, things don’t turn out to be what they look like. While that’s usually a pre-cursor for disappointment when we…
Moorabool Antiques is a second-generation Antique Shop, located in Geelong, Victoria, Australia.
We have a large premises overflowing with interesting items – well over 10,000 to browse.
It’s well worth a visit, with easy access from Melbourne by road, close to the train station, and just a few minutes from Avalon Airport. We are also just 10 minutes from the Tasmanian Ferry terminal.
We specialise in Antique Ceramics – but also have an extensive stock of Victorian, Georgian & earlier Furniture, Silver, Glass, Artworks, plus Antiquities & Natural History.
We are a small family business, with customer service and authenticity as our core values. Our customers return again & again, with our ultimate aim always being ‘Happy Customers’!
Stock Samples
A Sample from our Ceramics
Ridgway square dish, lavender body, classic sprigging, c. 1820
Ridgway pottery square dish with applied classical white sprigging on a lavender body with clear glaze Circa 1820 21.5cm W good condition…
Dutch Delft Architectural deskset, inkwell & sander, Chinoiserie underglaze blue,
Interesting Dutch Delft deskset, the ‘architectural’ form with front balustrading acting as a pen rest, the rectangular box-form body with…
English pottery yellow mug with bat print, silver lustre, c.
English yellow glazed pottery mug, decorated with a bat print of figures & sheep before a country house, set within…
Villeroy and Bosch yellow serving dish C.1950
Villeroy and Bosch rectangular serving dish in bright yellow with black rim detail Circa 1950 31.5 x 15cm…
A Sample from our Furniture
George III mahogany pedestal, C. 1780
George III mahogany tripod based pedestal, the column well carved with fluting and laurel leaf & berry, on cabriole legs….
Late Victorian child’s high chair, C.1895
Late Victorian child’s high chair, with solid cowrie seat, turned hardwood back & legs. Circa 1895 33x31cm 84cm high Condition: good, has been cleaned…
Australian fire screen, three oil paintings of Blue Mountains, c.
Australian Hardwood fire screen, the tri-fold frame with plywood panels inset with three landscape oil paintings of the Blue Mountains,…
Georgian Oak open corner cabinet, c.1770
Georgian oak corner cabinet with three shaped open shelves. Circa 1770…
Spindleback armchair with rush seat, circa 1800
English Spindleback elm armchair with rush seat, circa 1800. Height: 113cm, Width: 58cm Depth: 46cm Considerable damage to the original rush seating….
George III rush seated spindle back chair, c. 1790
George III elm spindle back chair, with turned finials and back, the seat in rush. Circa 1790. 88cm high good condition, rush is…
A Sample from our Art
Topographical survey watercolours for railway line near Einasleigh, QLD, c.
Rare colonial sketchbook leaves, illustrating a surveyors plots for a railway route through challenging terrain, with two options plotted, one…
Fine watercolour of Lime fruit & flowers, large & small
Finely detailed study in watercolour of a branch of a lime tree with fruit, leaves and flowers, balanced by a…
Australiana carved cedar panel of a dragon, 20th c.
Unusual Australian carved panel, with a medieval-style low relief dragon. Back inscribed ‘Carved by Mildred A Hutton. Rockhampton QLD’ 20th century 47 x…
Japanese calligraphy scroll, 19th/20th century
Japanese calligraphy scroll, with central inscription and several red seal impressions. 19th/20th century Work 66x21cm total 127x29cm…
Daisy Wood watercolour, Fungus fans, mid 20th Century
Daisy Wood watercolour, ‘Fungus fans’, Signed lower right mid 20th Century Image 29x22cm…
Original hand-painted botanical illustration – Seville/Bitter Orange ‘C. Aurantium’ 20th
Finely detailed hand-painted watercolour, a botanical illustration for an unknown book, titled in pencil ‘C. Aurantium’ , Bitter, or Seville…
