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
Staffordshire porcelain figure of a seated Turk, c.1835
Staffordshire porcelain figure of a seated Turk in bright green pants, orange shoes and red hat, smoking a hookah with…
Pearlware coffee pot, moulded spout & blue pagoda scenes, c.
Interesting Pearlware coffee pot, of baluster form with a pagoda pattern in blue & white, the knop shaped as an…
Chamberlains Worcester cup & saucer, pattern 1563 c.1820
Chamberlains Worcester cup & saucer, of elegant gadrooned rim form, finely gilt with foliage flourishes framing small flower groups. Red mark,…
Vauxhall blue and white pickle leaf, c. 1753-64
Vauxhall pickle dish, of leaf form, painted with an underglaze blue pattern of a rock & flower, on three short…
A Sample from our Furniture
Georgian Chippendale Mahogany card table, c. 1775
Chippendale Mahogany card table, with serpentine edge and reeded legs, small leaf scroll brackets, the interior finished in green felt. Circa…
George III Oak chair with wheatsheaf splat and pale silk
George III elm chair, the back with wheatsheaf splat and drop in seat. Circa 1790 85cm high, W:46cm D: 51cm recently re-upholstered drop-in seat…
Red pine bureau on later legs, C. 1850
Early Victorian bureau, with lift up writing slope revealing pigeon hole interior, on 4 high later legs, the whole finished…
Oak side table with dummy drawer, 18th century style, c.
English Oak small side table on cabriole legs, a dummy drawer to one end. Old timbers, probably early 18th century, Re-constructed earlier…
Victorian mahogany nursing chair, c. 1860
Victorian nursing chair, the low form with mahogany scroll supports to back, on turned legs. Circa 1860 Depth: 77cm Width: 59c, Height: 89cm wear to…
Pair of Regency mahogany chairs, purple suede upholstery, c.1815
Pair of Regency mahogany chairs, the sabre leg form with plain back and classically carved splat, the front legs reeded,…
A Sample from our Art
Dellmont Hellier, ‘Jamieson Valley’ oil, latter-20th c.
Dermont Hellier (1916-2006) oil on canvas, titled ‘Jamieson Valley’ , near Mansfield, Victoria. Later 20th century 36x31cm Excellent condition Dermont Hellier (1916-2006) is a…
French Terracotta plaque, children in high relief, c. 1880
French terracotta plaque moulded in high relfief with a young child holding a younger sibling, in original ebonised turned wood…
Dutch oil on tin, lute player, early 19th century
Dutch oil on tin, Lute player in an archway. Unsigned, early 19th century 20.5x17cm Good condition….
James Stinton (1870-1961) – pheasants in a landscape, c. 1900
James Stinton (1870-1961) – “Pheasants in a Landscape”, watercolour on card, c. 1900 Signed lower left. James Stinton was the youngest son…
Black Basalt plaque of a Philosopher, in early Australian Cedar
Late 18th century Black Basalt portrait plaque of an unknown philosopher, depicted with long hair & beard facing left, interestingly framed…
Australian fire screen, three oil paintings of Blue Mountains, c.
Australian Hardwood fire screen, the tri-fold frame with plywood panels inset with three landscape oil paintings of the Blue Mountains,…