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
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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!
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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 saleKenneth Jack, ink sketch – General Store, Post Office, Church, + Garage, Swan Reach, Victoria 1964$650.00 AUD
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Product on saleSpode ironstone rectangular platter, Imari Pattern #3504, c.1815$412.50 AUD
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Product on saleSpode ironstone rectangular platter, Imari Pattern #3504, c.1815$337.50 AUD
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Product on saleSpode ironstone rectangular platter, Imari Pattern #3504, c.1815$300.00 AUD
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Product on saleSpode ironstone rectangular dish, Imari Pattern #3504, c.1815$285.00 AUD
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Product on salePair of Italian Baroque walnut chairs with carved backs, 17th century$3,900.00 AUD
Find your Niche….
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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. 1858$36,000.00 AUD
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Egyptian Royal Shabti Figure for Queen Henttawy, 19th Dynasty$22,000.00 AUD
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French Empire bronze boat-form inkwell, serpent handles, c. 1800$3,650.00 AUD
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Dihl and Guérhard covered cup & stand, fine neo-classical gilt decoration on ‘tortoise shell’ ground, c.1795$2,400.00 AUD
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Paris porcelain plate, painted in the Neoclassical taste, Nast C 1805$980.00 AUD
Freshest Stock
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.
Bookends
Always handy, and don’t they dress up a bookshelf?…
18th Century English Earthenwares
Creamware Creamware is the term for an English earthenware body with a definite ‘cream’ tone, popular in the latter half…
English Enamels & Derby figures
Welcome to our latest Fresh Stock release at Moorabool. This week we have a fine selection of English Porcelain figures,…
Fresh Stock- Jewellery, Pottery & Porcelain, including Masons, Worcester,
Welcome to Moorabool’s latest Fresh Stock release – a fine selection of items, fresh to the market. We’re also beginning…
Fresh Stock – Torquay Art Pottery + more…
Welcome to another Moorabool ‘Fresh Stock’. This one features a collection of English ‘Art Pottery’ from the distinct Devon potters…
Minton rarities, Australian Pottery, American Ceramics – and more, Fresh
Welcome to an interesting Moorabool ‘Fresh Stock Release’. Featured are a small collection of early Victorian ‘Staffordshire Cottages’ -…
Featured Items & Essays
A Rare Pair: Meissen copies of Sèvres, by J.G. Loehnig,
Sometimes, things don’t turn out to be what they look like. While that’s usually a pre-cursor for disappointment when we discover something is made later, or badly damaged – our recent…
Frederick Strange, View of Launceston from Sandhill c.1858
An important colonial work of art recently discovered by Moorabool is the work of the convict artist, Frederick Strange….
A Rare Wedgwood ‘Egyptian’ jug, 1854
This rare piece of Wedgwood came to Moorabool recently, and is quite a remarkable piece. Rare Wedgwood ‘Egyptian Jug’, modelled in black basalt after an Ancient Greek oinochoe, with a faithful painted ‘black-figure’ style…
Ellen Ross, artist, with Dickens & Australian High Court connections….
A fascinating piece of English porcelain has come to Moorabool, which if it wasn’t for the original 1876 exhibition label on the back, would just be an ‘interesting amateur-decorated decorative plate’. However,…
First Fresh Stock release for 2024
Welcome to our first Fresh Stock for 2024. We have a fine selection of interesting items for you to browse, including Sterling, Old Sheffield Plate, Australian Pottery, and a whole range of…
A rare fake ‘TP Dexter’ Sterling Jug: Silver Fraud!
These three jugs look very similar, and yet only one is genuine. Below is a Genuine engraved jug of 1798, a Victorian version of 1888, and another Victorian…. but with marks claiming…
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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
English porcelain plate with flower group, ‘Dawn’ ground, C.1835
Dessert plate with moulded rim, the center well painted with a bouquet of flowers within a scrolling gilt border and…
Derby small vase with Imari decoration, c. 1820
Bloor Derby vase of small size, decorated in the Imari palette. red crown & baton mark, c. 1820 7.5cm…
Chinese porcelain libation cup, European decoration, 18th & 19th century
Small Chinese libation cup, early 18th century, moulded with prunus to one side, magnolia the other side, the whole brightly…
Creamware Coffeepot, Rhodes type flowers, c. 1770
Creamware coffeepot, brightly painted with David Rhodes type flower groups, with double red line to rim. Circa 1770 22.5cm High Condition: Lid ‘matched’,…
A Sample from our Furniture
Set of 6 Victorian mahogany chairs, scroll carving, c. 1875
Set of 6 Victorian mahogany chairs, with turned front legs and elegant spade backs with corner scroll carving. Circa 1875 89cm high Some…
French work table, inlaid marquetry landscape to top, c. 1875
French kingwood work table with upper compartment above a shelf, supported on shaped ebonised legs, the shelf with musical instrument…
A Sample from our Art
W J Wadham (1863-1950) large watercolour – River view, Tasmania,
W J Wadham (1863-1950) large watercolour – River view, Tasmania, c. 1890 Some slight browning to paper, original frame with marks work 49…
Daisy Wood water colour, Nestia Daisies, signed, c. 1975
Daisy Wood water colour of Nestia Daisies on a turquoise background, signed “Daisy Wood” at flower stems, framed and mounted Circa…
Japanese scroll painting, figure by a stream, 19th/ early 20th
Japanese scroll painting, the rocky landscape featuring a figure seated by a stream, overshadowed by flowering daisy plants. 19th/ early 20th…
John C. Aisbett (1896-1964) ‘Farmyard Haystacks’, Oil on Board signed
John C. Aisbett (1896-1964) ‘Farmyard Haystacks’, Oil on Board signed & dated lower right 1946 50x37cm Condition: fair, some warpage to board & minor marks. John…
Gladstone Eyre (1863-1933) – Colonial river scene, watercolour c. 1895
Gladstone Eyre (1863-1933) watercolour, Colonial river scene, with men crossing an inlet & dingy approaching a jetty, a sail on the…