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
Chamberlain Worcester plate, mazarine blue & flowers, c. 1820
Chamberlain’s Worcester plate, decorated in the Dr Wall style of the 1780’s, the rim with wide mazarine blue ground with…
Meissen tea canister, blue onion pattern, c. 1780
Meissen tea canister, painted in underglaze blue with the ‘onion pattern’, a later brass top to the neck. Underglaze blue crossed…
Chinese blue & white jarlet, fenced landscape, 18th-19th century
Chinese porcelain small jar, painted in underglaze blue with figures in a ‘fenced garden’ pattern, a flowerhead & leaf band…
Staffordshire ‘Jackfield’ pottery cow creamer, c.1870
Staffordshire ‘Jackfield’ type pottery cow creamer, the open mouth being the spout, with gilt horns and details on the deep…
German bisque figural vase, man with sack, c. 1900
German bisque figural vase, modelled as a man in purple pants and green hat, with large white sack-vase. Impressed marks, c….
Pair of Victorian ‘nodder’ figures, girl + boy with dog
Delightful pair of Victorian porcelain ‘nodders’, with a kneeling boy with two kittens and kneeling girl with two puppies under…
A Sample from our Furniture
Georgian Flame Mahogany Secretaire bookcase, c.1795
Georgian Flame Mahogany Secretaire bookcase with fine inlaid palmette decoration to outside of desk drawer, the fittings in satinwood, with…
Japanese large wooden screen, carved with birds & flowers, ex-
Handsome large Japanese room screen, well carved with both sides different, one side with shallow carved-out panels of lifesize plants,…
George III mahogany covered washstand
George III mahogany covered washstand Height: 83cm Width: 46cm Depth: 45cm Top hole covered…
George III Mahogany sarcophagus shape wine cellar, c. 1820
George III Mahogany sarcophagus shape wine cellar, with panelled sides and bun feet, interior vacant. …
Early Georgian dark mahogany dropside table, c.1730
Early Georgian dark mahogany dropside table, the rectangular top on elegant tapered pad feet. Circa 1730 H: 65cm Top: 120x116cm small restorations to timber,…
Thonet bentwood and seat armchair, c. 1905
Thonet (Vienna) ornate bentwood armchair, the back with turned sections and knobs to the ends, the seat caned. Circa 1905 ‘186’ stamped…
A Sample from our Art
Watercolour, Thatch Cottages by a bridge, 19th century
English watercolour of good quality, depicting an evening scene in the countryside, a shepherd leading his flock toward a stone…
Australian watercolour cows, gumtrees by W.H. Page Hammond, circa 1935
W.H. Page Hammond (1889-1967) Cows amongst gums, with distant hills Signed lower left ‘W.H. Page Hammond- circa 1935 38 x 28 cm Not recorded in…
Ida Rentoul Outhwaite – Blackberry Fairy- original watercolour, circa 1933
Ida Rentoul Outhwaite (1888-1960) The Blackberry Fairy Original watercolour, pen & pencil on paper, signed lower left ‘I.R.O.’ Circa 1933 presently unframed 15×22.5cm Condition: some browning…
Pair of large Georgian silhouettes, lady & gent, black lacquer
Pair of large Georgian cut paper silhouettes, of a gent & lady, with ink & white details of hair &…
Watercolour, stem of convolvulus 18th Century
Watercolour on paper of stems of convolvulus or ‘morning glory’ Late 18th Century 28.5cm X 22.5 Signs of age, foxing…
Small Oval Oil painting , vase of geraniums Signed BL
Small Oval Oil painting on board, of a vase of geraniums on a table. Signed BL (?) Mid 20th Century 24×18.5cm…