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 –
CLOSED TUES 20TH MAY
CONTACT:
ph (03) 52292 970
email – moorabool@gmail.com
Moorabool Auctions
Ph – 0494129983
Email – mooraboolauctions@gmail.com
Latest News:
Arts & Crafts Collection
A fine selection of ‘Arts & Crafts’ has just been posted on Moorabool.com . It’s an interesting survey of the late 19th- early 20th century designs that were…
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, mostly local estates and 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.
NEXT AUCTION: Mid-August.
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After-Auction Pick-ups – 16 Ryrie Street, Business Hours
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
Early Victorian nursing chair, bobbin turned back, c.1840Original price was: $480.00 AUD.$370.00 AUDCurrent price is: $370.00 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.
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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Chinese silver teaset, Dragons, by Tuck Chang, Shanghai, c. 1890$6,500.00 AUD -
Frederick Strange – ‘View of Launceston’, Important Colonial Masterpiece c. 1858Sold -
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
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.
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…
An Asian-themed Fresh Stock
Fresh Stock with an Asian Theme – a good quantity of items for you to browse from China, Japan, Burma,…
Fresh stock October 7th
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
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
Sevres socketed cup & saucer with birds by Chappuis, 1765
Important Sèvres cup and saucer, goblet et soucoup enfoncé, premiere grandeur , superbly painted by Antoine-Joseph Chappuis (aîné), with four…
Furstenberg basket, painted with flower groups, c. 1785.
Furstenberg basket, the high sides with blue daisyheads at the junctions, a flower group to the base. Underglaze blue ‘F’ mark…
Early large Staffordshire figure of ‘Diana’ the huntress, c. 1795
Early large Staffordshire figure of ‘Diana’ the huntress, shown with bow in hand & reaching for an arrow from the…
Derby figure of a boy with flower basket, C. 1765
Delightful Derby figure of a boy, standing wearing a garland of flowers, a basket of flowers in his arms, with…
Chinese celadon glaze snuff bottle, 19th century
Chinese celadon glaze snuff bottle, the oval body with twin handles at short neck, moulded with a stylised twin dragon…
Hand painted Limoges wall plate, decorated with two butterfly’s amongst
Limoges France hand painted plate with flowers and butterfly’s on a soft lemon ground with period wall hanger. …
A Sample from our Furniture
Large Leather covered trunk on stand, circa 1860
Leather bound trunk with brass close buttoning, a carry handle to either end, on four later bracketed feet. …
Early Victorian Mahogany dropside table c.1840
Early Victorian Mahogany dropside table, Â the rectangular top on slender turned legs with bands of ebonised rings, a single drawer…
Wood carved bullock bell, Eastern European
Wood carved bullock bell. Eastern European 20th c. Good condition, rope refreshed recently 12cm high, 17cm wide…
German Aneroid Barometer + Thermometer, carved case, c. 1910
German Aneroid Barometer + Thermometer, carved case, c. 1910 21.5cm wide Good working order with minimal signs of age to case….
William IV rosewood tilt-top round table with lions paw feet,
Magnificent William IV circular rosewood tilt-top table, with a large tapered central pedestal, supported by three finely carved lions paw…
A Sample from our Art
Pair of German portrait salts, lady & gent, c. 1790
Pair of German glass open salts, the deep fluted oval forms each applied to the underside with a portrait of…
Circle of Salvator Rosa, Italianate sunset landscape with travelers, 17th
Circle of Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615–1673) Travellers in the Dusk, Oil on canvas Depicting a group of merchants with camels & soldiers making…
AGA Skinner original ink cartoon, Policeman with comical problem, signed
Original ink comical sketch, titled ‘The Slueth’ “Hump (sniff) ! oil shops a-fire somewhere, I’ll bet a tanner!’ Signed ‘AGA Skinner / 9-9-14…
Portrait miniature of Lady Parkes, wife of Sir Henry Parkes,
Rare portrait miniature of Lady Eleanor Parkes, ne-Dixon, as a young girl, a painted miniature by John Botterill over a…
Large Chinese painting ‘Ancestor Scroll’, family in house, 19th c.
Large Chinese ‘Ancestor Scroll’, showing a large family group of 12 men & women, gathered in a house interior complete…
