Moorabool Antique Galleries – Offering a vast range of Genuine Antiques in Geelong, Australia

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

Total stock to browse: 10,000 items11,000 items…..and more added constantly.

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: Please note due to issues on our website at present, please do not pay until we have confirmed stock is present

May 2nd Auction

We’re pleased to have our next auction posted on Invaluable – finally! It’s a wonderful array of items, from the sublime to the ridiculous…. Silver and Metalwork The sale’s silver offerings…

Fresh Stock at Moorabool

Welcome to our latest Fresh Stock release. There’s quite a range of Fresh items to browse…. Here’s our new way of browsing: enjoy!…

Grace Darling, the Heroine of the Sea – in Staffordshire!

Grace Darling, the heroic lighthouse-keeper’s daughter is the subject of this rare Staffordshire figure fresh to Moorabool’s stock. But something is very peculiar with this example…. making…

Moorabool is now conducting Auctions.
‘MOORABOOL AUCTIONS‘ holds regular auctions in Geelong. 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, mostly local estates and collections fresh to the market offered exclusively by Moorabool Auctions.

Superb French 18ct gold greyhound fob and Trichinopoly book chain, c.1870 — Gold watch chain, French c. 1860
SOLD July 4, estimate $3500-4500,
hammer $4800

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.

NEXT AUCTION: Late August
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After-Auction Pick-ups – 16 Ryrie Street, Business Hours

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A New way to browse our artworks:
Artists in Stock – an alphabetical list of artists.

Note: doesn’t include unsigned, unattributed pieces.

Sale! items

Product on sale

Small Lowestoft basket, printed with the ‘Pinecone’ pattern, c.1770

Original price was: $1,450.00 AUD.Current price is: $950.00 AUD.
Product on sale

Spode ironstone rectangular platter, Imari Pattern #3504, c.1815

Original price was: $550.00 AUD.Current price is: $412.50 AUD.
Product on sale

Spode ironstone rectangular platter, Imari Pattern #3504, c.1815

Original price was: $450.00 AUD.Current price is: $337.50 AUD.
Product on sale

Spode ironstone rectangular platter, Imari Pattern #3504, c.1815

Original price was: $400.00 AUD.Current price is: $300.00 AUD.
Product on sale

Spode ironstone rectangular dish, Imari Pattern #3504, c.1815

Original price was: $380.00 AUD.Current price is: $285.00 AUD.
Product on sale

Pair of Italian Baroque walnut chairs with carved backs, 17th century

Original price was: $4,200.00 AUD.Current price is: $3,900.00 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.

Chinese silver teaset, Dragons, by Tuck Chang, Shanghai, c. 1890

$6,500.00 AUD
Frederick Strange – ‘View of Launceston’, Important Colonial Masterpiece c. 1858

Sold
Egyptian Royal Shabti Figure for Queen Henttawy, 19th Dynasty

$22,000.00 AUD
French Empire bronze boat-form inkwell, serpent handles, c. 1800

$3,650.00 AUD
Paris porcelain plate, painted in the Neoclassical taste, Nast C 1805

$980.00 AUD

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Freshest Stock

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Fossil Dinosaur Tooth – Spinosaurus, Morocco, 99 million years

$95.00 AUD

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Ming Dynasty porcelain ‘Phoenix’ bowl, character mark, Jiajing mid-16th century

$1,450.00 AUD

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Small ivory vase with flowering prunus branch ‘handle’, Chinese, late 19th century

$365.00 AUD

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Chinese Canton Enamel snuff bottle with family scenes, earlier 20th c.

$85.00 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 at Moorabool

on 28/05/2025

Welcome to our latest Fresh Stock release. There’s quite a range of Fresh items to browse…. Here’s our new way…

An Asian-themed Fresh Stock

on 21/01/2025

Fresh Stock with an Asian Theme – a good quantity of items for you to browse from China, Japan, Burma,…

Fresh stock October 7th

on 14/10/2024

Fresh Stock uploaded to moorabool.com . You’ll find a fine and varied selection, from Georgian Furniture to fine 18th…

Featured Items & Essays

Mademoiselle d’Jeck, a rare Staffordshire Figure of a Theatre Star

on 07/08/2024

Mademoiselle d’Jeck was a 4-ton prima-donna…. appearing all across Europe & America in the earlier 19th century, she was…

by Paul Rosenberg

David Roberts ‘Oberwesel’ 1829, re-discovered.

on 03/08/2024

A local customer recently inherited a small number of Antiques from an uncle, including a most interesting oil painting. Set…

by Paul Rosenberg

A Rare Pair: Meissen copies of Sèvres, by J.G. Loehnig, circa 1786

on 07/05/2024

Sometimes, things don’t turn out to be what they look like. While that’s usually a pre-cursor for disappointment when we…

by Paul Rosenberg

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’!