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 –
CONTACT:
ph (03) 52292 970
email moorabool@gmail.com
Easter Hours
– closed Good Friday, open Sat 10am -1pm
Closed Monday
Open as usual Tuesday
Latest News:
Lots of Fresh Stock being prepared – see what’s coming in the ‘Preview’ pages:
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 saleChinese silver teaset, Dragons, by Tuck Chang, Shanghai, c. 1890$5,000.00 AUD
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Product on saleSmall Chinese ‘prunus’ ginger jar, 18th-19th c.$192.50 AUD
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Product on saleJohn Allcot oil on board, Clippership ‘BRILLIANT’, artists gift 1966$1,750.00 AUD
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Product on saleKenneth Jack, ink sketch – General Store, Post Office, Church, + Garage, Swan Reach, Victoria 1964$650.00 AUD
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Product on saleSpode ironstone rectangular platter, Imari Pattern #3504, c.1815$412.50 AUD
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Product on saleSpode ironstone rectangular platter, Imari Pattern #3504, c.1815$337.50 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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Frederick Strange – ‘View of Launceston’, Important Colonial Masterpiece c. 1858$36,000.00 AUD
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Product on saleChinese silver teaset, Dragons, by Tuck Chang, Shanghai, c. 1890$5,000.00 AUD
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Remarkable set of 7 Chinese Ivory child musicians, late Qing Dynasty, c.1900$6,600.00 AUD
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Egyptian Royal Shabti Figure for Queen Henttawy, 19th Dynasty$22,000.00 AUD
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French Empire bronze boat-form inkwell, serpent handles, c. 1800$3,650.00 AUD
Freshest Stock
Silver plated wine bottle holder 20th C
$95.00 AUD
Silver plated wine bottle holder 20th C
$140.00 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, inc. The Grand Tour, a Wedgwood ‘Egyptian’ jug,
Welcome to our latest ‘Fresh Stock’. This week, it’s a great variety, with some superb rarities in the ‘Grand Tour’…
A Rare Wedgwood ‘Egyptian’ jug, 1854
This rare piece of Wedgwood came to Moorabool recently, and is quite a remarkable piece. Rare Wedgwood ‘Egyptian Jug’, modelled in…
Tags – a Fresh way to browse our stock!
With over 10,000 items on moorabool.com, it’s always a struggle to find what you’re looking for. For some time now,…
Fresh Stock – from Children’s Chairs to Moser Glass
Welcome to the latest Fresh Stock release on moorabool.com . This is a terrifically diverse one, bringing together a series…
Asian Arts – Chinese & South-East Asian Ceramics
Welcome to our Asian Special. We’re actually in Asia for this one! Paul & Glenys, your proprietors at Moorabool Antiques,…
Nod if you like Antiques….. a collection of ‘Nodders’ +
Today’s Fresh Stock is a bit of a laugh….. These classic bits of Victorian are the ultimate ….. ‘kitsch’! A…
Featured Items & Essays
A Rare Wedgwood ‘Egyptian’ jug, 1854
This rare piece of Wedgwood came to Moorabool recently, and is quite a remarkable piece. Rare Wedgwood ‘Egyptian Jug’, modelled in black basalt after an Ancient Greek oinochoe, with a faithful painted ‘black-figure’ style…
Ellen Ross, artist, with Dickens & Australian High Court connections….
A fascinating piece of English porcelain has come to Moorabool, which if it wasn’t for the original 1876 exhibition label on the back, would just be an ‘interesting amateur-decorated decorative plate’. However,…
First Fresh Stock release for 2024
Welcome to our first Fresh Stock for 2024. We have a fine selection of interesting items for you to browse, including Sterling, Old Sheffield Plate, Australian Pottery, and a whole range of…
A rare fake ‘TP Dexter’ Sterling Jug: Silver Fraud!
These three jugs look very similar, and yet only one is genuine. Below is a Genuine engraved jug of 1798, a Victorian version of 1888, and another Victorian…. but with marks claiming…
Introducing…. artist A. E. Jobson 1868-1955
An interesting recent discovery by Moorabool was this small pastel scene of an Australian beach.Signed ‘A. E. Jobson’, it is an interesting chalk sketch, done on a coarse textured grey toned paper….
A Phar Lap Australian Silver Charm
A remarkable momento of the epic 1930 Melbourne Cup win by Phar Lap, commemorating J.E. Pike’s win, this rare Australian Sterling Silver medallion is Fresh to Moorabool’s stock – just in time…
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
English heraldic dish – Jesus College, Cambridge C.1880
Large heraldic pottery dish, well painted with the arms of Jesus College, Cambridge, on a ground painted with classical motifs….
Spode trio, teabowl and coffee can, gilt foliage sprays, c.1800
Spode teabowl and coffee can trio, painted with elegant gilt foliage sprays within gilt line borders. Circa 1800 saucer 13cm, coffee can…
Minton sussecionist movement pottery vase, slip flowers, 1900-08
Minton Sussecionist Movement pottery vase, slip decorated with flower heads and scrolling foliage in green, on a mottled red ground. Printed…
Wedgwood Creamware plate, botanical prints, c. 1880
Wedgwood creamware plate, decorated with large scale botanical prints. Impressed WEDGWOOD, other small letters, Circa 1880…
Sawankhalok Thai stoneware vase, celadon glaze, 14th-16th century
Sawankhalok stoneware vase with olive-green celadon glaze, of gourd shape, decorated with a series of rings to the shoulder, the…
A Sample from our Furniture
French fauteuil with faded red velvet upholstery and fringe, C.
Large French fauteuil, with sweeping arms ending in scroll, supported on bobbin turned feet and ‘H’ shaped stretcher, upholstered in…
Victorian Mahogany roll top desk with extending writing slope, c.1875
Handsome Victorian Mahogany ‘roll top’ desk, with large solid panel opening to reveal interior fitted with drawers in satinwood, the…
Australian cedar letter box, ‘V’ shaped top, C. 1865
Unusual Australian cedar letter box with ‘v’ shaped top letter slot, one side inscribed ‘LETTERS’, the other with a hinged…
Anglo-Indian Teak Chess table with inlaid alabaster board, twin drawers,
Anglo-Indian Teak/Mahogany Chess table with finely inlaid alabaster & semi-precious stone board, set into a shaped top, on a base…
Australia chip carved mirror, dated 4/1/05 (1905)
Australia chip carved mirror, of oval form with original glass, inscribed to the back ‘4/1/05’. Dated 1905…
A Sample from our Art
Rare Lithograph title-page ‘Portraits: Princes & People of India’ by
Rare coloured lithograph, the title-page from ‘Portraits of the Princes and People of India’, after sketches by Emily Eden, printed…
Norma Bull – Corio Bay & the You Yangs, oil
Norma Bull (1906-1980) View over Corio Bay towards the You-Yangs, Oil on Tin Circa 1950’s frame 38x48cm, work 30x40cm Good condition, in period frame with…
Ronald R Fletcher, Fisherman & Stormclouds, oil on board c.
Ronald “Russell” Fletcher (1922-2014) “Fisherman & Stormclouds”, probably a Sydney Harbour view. Oil on artist’s board, circa 1955 frame 59x48cm, work 49x38cm Good condition in…
After Landseer, hunting dogs original gouache, 19th century
Nice quality Victorian gouache painting on Windsor & Newton board, after Landseer, depicting two hunting dogs in a landscape, tracking…
Italian Portrait on ivory, praying girl, signed Veber c.1930
Portrait on ivory, showing a middle-ages woman at prayer, dressed in blue with pearl enhancements to her dress and hair,…