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
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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
Small Lowestoft basket, printed with the ‘Pinecone’ pattern, c.1770Original price was: $1,450.00 AUD.$950.00 AUDCurrent price is: $950.00 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. -
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Spode ironstone rectangular platter, Imari Pattern #3504, c.1815Original price was: $400.00 AUD.$300.00 AUDCurrent price is: $300.00 AUD. -
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Spode ironstone rectangular dish, Imari Pattern #3504, c.1815Original price was: $380.00 AUD.$285.00 AUDCurrent price is: $285.00 AUD. -
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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.
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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
Coalport bone china plate with bird, pink ground, Circa 1845.
Coalport bone china plate, the center painted in the Sevres style with a bird in a landscape, in the manner…
Persian Qajar tile, horseman in landscape, 19th c.
Persian Qajar period tile, moulded in low relief with a cantering horseman, lance in hand, riding through a landscape with…
Wedgwood plate, Aesthetic Movement Cyclemens print, 1880
Wedgwood plate, printed in brown & coloured with enamels, the canter with a large cyclamen bulb & flowers, within an…
Leipzig view, German pipe bowl, handpainted 19th c.
German porcelain pipe bowl, superbly painted with a continuous landscape of a city, titled ‘Leipzig’. Circa 1870 11cm long, 3cm wide hairline through…
Japanese large figure of a boy on a carp, circa
Japanese figure of a boy on a carp, the large-scale porcelain sculptire with iron red, green & turquoise enamel detials. Impressed…
A Sample from our Furniture
Spanish elm chair, tooled leather seat, 17th century
Spanish elm chair with shaped stretcher and upholstered and with early tooled leather seats. Mid 17th century 45x37cm, 97cm high…
French ebonised etargere with intricate marquetry top, ormolu galleries, circa
French ebonised etargere with intricate marquetry and pierced ormolu galleries to the shelves, the leg tops with pinecone finials. Circa 1870 85cm…
William IV mahogany small side table, c. 1835
William IV mahogany work table, of unusual light construction with twin drawers on long turned feet, dummy-drawers and stringing to…
Regency mahogany extension table, bellflower carving, c.1820
Regency mahogany dining table, with extending mechanism, complete with one large & two half-size leaves that sit inside a central…
A Sample from our Art
Ink & wash study, ‘The Wellington Shield’ & ‘Indian Camel
Interesting double-sided ink study of the elaborate ‘Wellington Shield’, with a mirror-image ink sketch of the high relief original, a…
William B. Thomas, ‘Sunrise, Lincolnshire Coast’, watercolour c. 1900
William B. Thomas (1877-1947), ‘Sunrise, Lincolnshire Coast, near Boston’, watercolour circa 1900 …
Western Australia engraved boab-tree nut, 20th century
Small Western Australia Aboriginal engraved boab-tree nut, decorated with a simple meander pattern. 20th century…
Pair of Chinese Export ‘pith paintings’, Mandarin couple , 3rd
Pair of Chinese export pith paintings of a standing lady in long blue robe with pink underskirt, her lotus shoes…
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…
New Zealand interest: a Budd sisters sketchbook leaf, Wakatipu, Queenstown,
A Budd sketchbook watercolour, depicting a boat on a lake, mountains behind, inscribed ‘View from Sitting room window, Wakatipu, 82’…
