Number of items currently online for sale:
2038
of an estimated total of 7,000 in stock.
More added constantly! Please contact us with any requests.
Site last updated:22nd June
Welcome to the Moorabool Antique Galleries website.
We stock Australia's largest range of genuine Antique Ceramics.
Here you will find early English & European pottery & porcelain,
glass, silver, artworks, and tribal & antiquities.
a random selection of stock......
We are pleased to present our updated & improved site. 
Here you will find a good portion of our vast stock listed, and we are working to complete the listings and photographs. There will be over 5,000 items in total..... Please feel free to browse or search, and if you cannot find what you are looking for, drop us an email and we will see if we can help.
While many items do have images, if you find something that has yet to be illustrated, use the 'request image'facility and we will get the images off to you as soon as possible, as well as updating the web page.
We have two new fairs to announce -
June 26th-28th, we will be exhibiting at the Camberwell Antique Show. This date coincided with our 'Recent Acquisitions' exhibition in our Geelong premises, so we have decided to replace it with the fair showing - and as most of our visitors come from Melbourne anyway, this should make it all much more accessible.
October 2nd-5th, we will travel up to Wagga Wagga to exhibit.
This will give our more remote NSW customers a chance to see us, and we also hope to make new contacts in this part of the country. If you have any particular requests and will be visiting, please let us know and we can bring specific items just for you!
NEW MAP: - a fully 3D interactive look at our premises!
With the opening of the new Ring Road, we are now just 4 sets of traffic lights from Melbourne - 45 minutes!
The simplest & quickest route: take the M1 to Geelong, don't turn off to 'Geelong City' but continue on the new by-pass until the very end, signposted 'Hamilton/Newtown'. Turn left (Newtown) and stay on this road without turning - four sets of lights later you will pass over the old Highway in the center of Geelong, and we are immediately on the right. Use our Free car park!
CALENDAR now planned out - we have our year planned out, with a Fair or Exhibition on nearly every month. If visiting our shop, make sure you check to see if our best stock is in store - and if you are in Sydney, make a note to visit the Fairs!
We have returned from the Sydney Fair! have a tour through our stand
MESSAGE PROBLEMS: we have discovered our website message system is not working, so if you have tried to contact us through the 'REQUEST IMAGE' or 'SEND AN ENQUIRY', it will not have come through to us. We are not ignoring you! Please use our email address query@moorabool.com to contact us direct. You can also call - 03 52292970 business hours.
We apologise for this oversight.
Are you looking for a special present for someone? click here for Gift ideas....
WE ARE NOW ON SKYPE!
Call us for free from anywhere in the world. Chat about items, and view them live on your screen via our video link!
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(Don't have Skype? it's a free download, and free to use!)
POSTAGE News: we have joined the Fastway Courier network, meaning we can now courier items to you for a very good price! This service is also very quick, with same day possible to Melbourne, and 1 - 2 days to NSW, QLD & SA.
As an example, a cup & saucer packed to our extra-care requirements would cost $10 to Melbourne, $12 to Adelaide, Hobart or Sydney, $18 to Brisbane, or $30 to Perth.
Extra weight adds little, just $3.50 per 5kg.
An Exciting discovery: 16th century Flemish Old Master, just in time for Christmas....
A recently purchased Old Master work with a beautiful Christmas feel, this oil on panel dates to the early 16th century. From the studio of Joos van Cleve (1480-1541), it is a remarkable piece for its sincere, humanizing portrayal of Mary, Joseph, and the Christ child, having a visit with the 'in-laws' - Anne & Joachim, Mary's parents.
This work is apparently unrecorded in recent literature. Read more about it here, or look up the stock entry here.
Superb quality oval French pastel of a young girl, shown facing from the chest up and semi-clad, in original frame & glass.
Inscription to original card reverse reading:
Madâlle Cailleau fecit le 24 Xbre 1765
(Mademoiselle Cailleau made this, 24th December, 1765)
Provenance: US Collection.
This work has proved to be the key to attributing the hand of a lady artist, previously known from a single catalogue entry in a 1926 Paris exhibition; Neil Jeffares states in his Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800 that â....If the oval girl is typical, there may well be other pastels by this artist languishing under attributions to âfollower of Rosalbaâ......â
Who the sitter was, and why the Christmas Eve date, we can only speculate: a mistress commissioning a Christmas present.....?
#1012871 AUD $5800 unframed 37cm x 45cm
In Geelong:
Our Library & Reference Collection is now open.
The opening took place on Saturday, July 5th, and was attended by around 200 ceramics enthusiasts.
With 1500 specimens and over 500 books relating to antique ceramics, it's well worth a visit.
Please feel free to drop in & use this exciting new facility anytime during business hours.
See the Library Opening event, 5th June 2008
Visit the Library
In Sydney:
We have just returned from exhibiting at the AAADA fair at Wharf 8, (the P&O passenger terminal) Darling Harbour, Sydney.
The fair was a success, given the uncertain financial times, as customers realize the sure investment power of antique ceramics!
(click photo for more images)
Last year's Great Sydney Antiques Fair at Moore Park, in the Royal Hall of Industries.
have a glance at our August 'Fox Studios' fair stand
browse our stock
Moorabool Antique Galleries,
16-18 Ryrie Street, Geelong,
Victoria, Australia 3220
ph (+61) 03 52292970
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