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…
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:
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: May 10th
Join our email list for updates >
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
-
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. -
Product on sale
Pair of Italian Baroque walnut chairs with carved backs, 17th centuryOriginal price was: $4,200.00 AUD.$3,900.00 AUDCurrent 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. 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
Rockingham plate, landscape pattern no. 558, c.1826-30
Rockingham dessert plate with shark tooth & scroll moulded border, the centre with handpainted scenes and superb gilding. …
Ridgway saltglaze moulded jug, ‘Tam O’Shanter’ story, 1835
Ridgway salt glaze jug, moulded with a continuous scene illustrating Robert Burns’s tale of ‘Tam O’Shanter’, the handle moulded as…
Large Chinese export charger, underglaze flower basket, Qianlong, c.1745
Large Chinese export charger, painted in underglaze blue with a ‘flower basket’ design, including lotus plant and flowering branch, the…
Chinese Export tea canister, flower dec, c.1760
Chinese Export tea canister of rectangular form, the sides painted with small flower sprigs, the curved shoulders with a shaped…
A Sample from our Furniture
Apothecary cabinet, Mahogany & Pine, excellent provenance, Nautical? c. 1890
Set of Victorian Apothecary drawers, English, with six rows of drawers, the upper half with four each, the lower half…
Victorian pearl shell ‘Ringstand’, Chair form, c. 1880
Victorian pearl shell ‘Ringstand’, shaped as a chair with vine leaf to back and legs supported by wire tendrils. Circa 1880…
Charles II walnut & beech ‘Restoration’ chair, cherubs & crown,
Charles II walnut and beech chair, the spirally turned back flanking foliate carving around a caned panel, the seat also…
A Sample from our Art
China trade painting of a riverside landscape with fisherman,
China trade oil painting of a riverside landscape with fisherman in the foreground, a group of buildings and a boat…
J. Hine watercolour, Houses on La Trobe Terrace, Geelong
Original Watercolour, titled: Houses on La Trobe Terrace, Geelong Signed J. Hine Late 20th century Framed 36x28cm Work 22x15cm…
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…
Bertha Rhodes, ‘Haymaking’ , watercolour signed & dated 1908
‘Haymaking’ Bertha Rhodes, active 1905-1912 watercolour with white highlighting, signed & dated 1908 work 25x18cm, frame 37x30cm some slight browning evident in sky, minor discoloration…
The edge of the desert, watercolour by Jean Laroché, Egyptian
“The edge of the desert” watercolour by Jean Laroché, Egyptian scene with camels, palms and a building. Signed & named lower left &…
