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: July 5th
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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. -
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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
Nyonya – Peranakan – Straits Chinese porcelain low bowl, chickens
Nyonya – Peranakan – Straits Chinese porcelain low bowl, painted in bright colours with two chickens in a garden setting,…
Coalport plate with ‘Dr Wall’ Worcester style decoration
Coalport plate with scaled blue ground, white floral panels with rococo scrolls. Diameter: 25cm. good condition…
Binh Thuan shipwreck chrysanthemum box, Wanli – 1608 Shipwreck Recovery
Small pottery box, the body moulded with lappet panels, the cover as a stylised chrysanthemum, with traces of bright on-glaze…
Pair of Minton tiles, Girl with Rabbits, Shepherd & sheep,
Pair of Minton tiles, printed in blue with Rural scenes, one with a Shepherd and his dog resting their sheep,…
Roman pottery oil lamp, 2nd – 5th century AD
Roman pottery oil lamp, of very small plain form, in light coloured clay. Eastern Mediterranean 4th – 8th century AD 7cm x 5cm Signs of…
Spode cup & saucer, Imari pattern 1216, c. 1800
Spode cup & saucer, richly decorated in an Imari pattern. Pattern 1216, Circa 1800 some wear to gold rim saucer 14cm…
A Sample from our Furniture
Early Victorian rosewood card table, flower carved, c.1840
Elegant English Rosewood card table, with four flower-carved legs supporting a central hexagonal column, the top sliding to reveal a…
Early English Oak panelled cupboard, dated 1655
Early English Oak panelled cupboard, with twin double-paneled doors on external iron hinges, the upper front carved with a foliate…
Set of 4 Regency mahogany chairs, fine carved backs, c.
Set of 4 Regency mahogany chairs, with finely carved central splat to backs, the front legs elegantly reeded. Circa 1820 (&later) Height:…
Edwardian Tea Trolley, Oak ‘Elizabethan’ style, c.1910
Edwardian tea trolley of ‘Elizabethan’ style, with three shelves, the top a removable tray on 4 open cast spoked wheels. Circa…
A Sample from our Art
Warwick A. Andrews, ‘Diligente, Slaver outrunning the Patrol’, 1971
Warwick A. Andrews (1930-2021) ‘Diligente, Slaver outrunning the Patrol 1838’ Oil on board, signed & dated 1971 inscribed to the back “Commenced 16th…
Watercolour portrait of a lady, signed A Sleger 1840
Fine portrait miniature of a lady, sketched in pencil & well detailed in watercolour. Signed in pencil lower right ‘A” Sleger…
Dorca Charles Sewell, ‘Port Natal, South Africa, 1879’ watercolour
Dorca Charles Sewell, ‘Port Natal, South Africa, 1879’ large watercolour depicting the colonial South African port of Natal, with several ships…
Arthur Esam – The Hawker’s Wagon – watercolour signed
Arthur Esam (1887-1958) The Hawker’s Wagon, depicting a covered wagon pulled by two horses, ‘I. JOHN / HAWKER’ pausing by a small…
Framed miniature on Ivory, marble bust of Apollo, signed &
Framed miniature on Ivory, depicting the Apollo Belvedere, finely painted in a trompe l’oeil manner against a deep blue ground,…
Stair Wood Cartoon original – “What is your favourite bus
Original Stair Wood cartoon, titled “What is your favourite bus route, conductor?” pencil sketch of a well dressed lady sitting on a…
