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Regency Furniture

REGENCY STYLE

Like France’s Empire style, Regency-style furniture was rooted in neoclassicism; the characteristics of its bedroom furniture, armchairs, dining room tables and other items include clean lines, angular shapes and elegant details.

Dating roughly from the 1790s to 1830s, antique Regency-style furniture gets its name from Prince George of Wales — formally King George IV — who became Prince Regent in 1811 after his father, George III, was declared unfit to rule. England’s Regency style is one of the styles represented in Georgian furniture.

George IV’s arts patronage significantly influenced the development of the Regency style, such as the architectural projects under John Nash, which included the renovation of Buckingham House into the formidable Buckingham Palace with a grand neoclassical facade. Celebrated designers of the period include Thomas Sheraton, Henry Holland and Thomas Hope. Like Nash, Hope instilled his work with classical influences, such as saber-legged chairs based on the ancient Greek klismos. He is credited with introducing the term “interior decoration” to English with the 1807 publishing of Household Furniture and Interior Decoration.

Although more subdued than previous styles like Rococo and Baroque, Regency interiors incorporated copious use of chintz fabrics and wallpaper adorned in chinoiserie-style art. Its furniture featured fine materials and luxurious embellishments. Furniture maker George Bullock, for instance, regularly used detailed wood marquetry and metal ornaments on his pieces.

Archaeological discoveries in Egypt and Greece informed Regency-era details, such as carved scrollwork, sphinxes and palmettes, as well as the shape of furniture. A Roman marble cinerary chest, for example, would be reinterpreted into a wooden cabinet. The Napoleonic Wars also inspired furniture, with martial designs like tented beds and camp-style chairs becoming popular. While the reddish-brown mahogany was prominent in this range of pieces, imported woods like zebrawood and ebony were increasingly in demand.

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Style: Regency
Period: 19th Century
English Regency Mahogany Breakfront Cabinet
Located in Queens, NY
English Regency mahogany breakfront cabinet with four lower cabinets with decorative wood inlay and four upper lattice glass cabinets with ...
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19th Century British Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Wood, Glass, Mahogany

French Regence Style Painted Bench
Located in Queens, NY
French Regence style (19/20th Century) green painted bench with floral carving and 8 legs connected with a stretcher and shaped cane seat under a cushion.
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19th Century French Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Cane, Paint, Wood

Antique BFB Worcester Hand Painted Plate with Shells Aqua Ground & Gilt Ca. 1807
Located in Katonah, NY
This exquisite antique porcelain plate was made by Barr Flight Barr Worcester, in England, between 1807 and 1813. At its center, it features a finely hand-painted depiction of a cone...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Porcelain

Pair of Antique Regency Quality Carved Mahogany Hall Chairs
Located in Suffolk, GB
Pair of antique regency quality carved mahogany hall chairs having a quality carved mahogany shaped back, solid mahogany seats standing on elegant turned reeded tapering legs to the ...
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19th Century English Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Other

English High Style Regency Padouk Dining Table
Located in Greenwich, CT
A period high style Regency dining table in the choicest padouk wood. Each leaf and top is made of a single plank of padouk, reserved for only the best furniture, further inlaid with...
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1820s English Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Padouk

Antique 1810 Attributed to Gillows Metamorphic Leather Library Armchair Steps
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this large and collectable fully restored Regency circa 1810-1820 metamorphic armchair which converts into Library steps attributed to Gillows of Lancaster and London This wonderful piece of English history has been on a journey of restoration, the frame has been washed back and French polished by a Victorian trained polisher, the leather upholstery is all new, it is Italian cattle hide, upholstered plain then hand dyed six times, antiqued and sealed, it has a lovely rich reddish brown colour to it. This chair is larger than any other of its type you would have seen, it is an important and extremely expensive looking thing that commands attention in any setting. You can see the same model made by Gillows currently viewed in the Victorian & Albert Museum, below is an extra from their listing. The period 1800-1825 was a great one for ‘patent’ or ‘metamorphic’ furniture This chair, which transforms into a short set of steps for use with bookshelves, is close to a design for a ‘Library Chair’ published in Rudolph Ackermann’s Repository of the Arts in July 1811, which was made by the London firm of Morgan and Saunders, of Catherine Street, Strand. They were well known for their ingenious furniture, including reading chairs with writing surfaces attached and a great variety of travelling beds...
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1810s English Antique Regency Furniture

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Leather, Hardwood

Regency Mahogany Writing Table
Located in Essex, MA
With inset tooled brown leather top with cross banded edge over a frieze containing three drawers and on the reverse three working drawers. False drawers on ends. All with brass knobs. Raised on turned tapered legs headed by reeding. Ending on cup casters. Sold Florian Papp...
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1820s English Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Brass

Very Fine 19th Century Regency Period Rosewood & Inlay Revolving Work Table
Located in Petworth,West Sussex, GB
Early 19th Century Regency Period Rosewood and Satinwood Inlay Occasional Table This exquisite occasional table from the early 19th century Regency Period showcases the elegance and...
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Early 19th Century British Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Rosewood, Satinwood

A Very Fine Regency Library Bookcase C1820s
Located in London, GB
A Beautiful Mahogany Regency Library Bookcase This bookcase is of Pure Quality with Concaved Sides and Brass Beading along the Frames Dates C1820
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Early 19th Century European Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Mahogany

Antique Garniture English Royal Crown Derby Porcelain Vases by Thomas Steel 19C
Located in Dublin, Ireland
An exceptionally fine quality rare example of an early Bloor period Royal Crown Derby hand painted porcelain Garniture of generous proportions by Thomas Steel. First quarter of the N...
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19th Century English Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Ceramic, Porcelain

Late 19th Century French Regency Style Hand Carved Walnut Display Table, Vitrine
Located in Fayetteville, AR
This late nineteenth century French Regency style hand pegged walnut display table features hand carved detailing of a diamond pattern on all sides. The hinged glass top opens for ac...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Walnut

Regency Penwork Decorated Box, C1810
Located in valatie, NY
Regency Penwork Decorated Box c1810. "A sycamore veneered box decorated in penwork. The sides of the box are decorated with what looks like stylized marigolds. ...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Brass

English Regency Adjustable Piano Stool
Located in Bradenton, FL
19th Century English Regency Mahogany Piano Stool with Round Upholstered Seat. Rotating seat features beautiful green padded upholstery that adds vibrancy and opulence to the room, a...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Mahogany

Regency Four Pedestal Mahogany Dining Table
Located in Essex, MA
Constructed with the finest quality dense mahogany. Four pedestals each with a top and three additional leaves. Four turned baluster supports ending on ...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Mahogany

Chamberlains Worcester Ink Stand Writing Set, Orange, Gilt Neoclassical, ca 1810
Located in London, GB
This is a splendid three-well ink stand or writing desk set made by Chamberlains Worcester in about 1810. The ink stand contains a stand with a pen holder or candle holder in the sha...
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1810s English Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Porcelain

Antique English Victorian Walnut & Brass Open Bookcase
Located in Glasgow, GB
An antique English late Victorian walnut open bookcase bookcase in the Regency style, very nice quality and unusual in that the top has a pierced brass three quarter-gallery and reed...
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Late 19th Century British Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Brass

19th Century Regency Style Mahogany Fall Front Plantation / Bookkeepers Desk
Located in Germantown, MD
19th Century Regency Style Mahogany Fall Front Plantation Desk / Bookkeepers Desk with needed legs. Cross-Banded Mahogany and satinwood front around flame mahogany surface Fall front...
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Late 19th Century American Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Wood, Mahogany

19 Century English Regency Neo Classical Gilt Wood Mirror
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A fine Regency giltwood and composition triple plate overmantel mirror, each mirror being beveled. The frieze is decorated with ebonized balls above alternating acanthus and anthemio...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Giltwood

Pair of Early 19th Century Regency Mahogany Sideboard Cabinets
Located in Essex, MA
Rare pair of Regency or Late Georgian Inlaid Mahogany sideboard cabinets. Wonderful trapezoidal form with concave side doors and interior shelving. Drawers with original lion pulls. Reeded columns and amphora feet. Provenance: Winter Antique Show...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Mahogany

Early 19th Century English Regency Mahogany Social Table Attributed to Gillows
Located in Charleston, SC
An English Regency mahogany social table, circa 1810, in classical Gillows design featuring removable reeded legs with brass cuffs and original cup caste...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Mahogany

Regency Mahogany Antique Boat Shaped Canterbury
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A good quality English early 19th century regency Period mahogany boat shaped Canterbury having Elegant square supports over one frieze drawer With replacement brass knobs raised on ...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Mahogany

19th Century Regency Brass Scottish Register Fireplace Insert Grate
Located in Edinburgh, GB
A fine and rare 19th Century Regency fireplace Insert grate, salvaged from Anne Street, Edinburgh Scotland. Circular rondel's to capitals with r...
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1810s Scottish Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Brass, Steel

Early 19th Century Regency Marble Fireplace Mantel
Located in London, GB
A large Regency period fireplace from the Early 19th century in "Old English" pencil veined Carrara marble. The slim pilaster jambs supported on square foot blocks, surmounted by car...
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Early 19th Century Welsh Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Carrara Marble

Antique Pembroke Table, English, Drop Leaf, Occasional, Tea, Regency, Circa 1820
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique Pembroke Table. An English, mahogany and satinwood drop-leaf occasional or tea table, dating to the Regency period, circa 1820. Beautifully presented small table,...
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1820s British Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Mahogany, Satinwood

A Fine Pair Of Antique Ormolu Mounted Imari Decorated Porcelain Vases
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A fine pair of antique ormolu, gilt bronze, mounted Imari decorated porcelain baluster form vases. Wonderfully mounted with rococo style ormolu mounts, ...
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19th Century Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Metal

Antique Regency Quality Mahogany Desk Chair
Located in Suffolk, GB
Antique Regency quality mahogany desk chair having a quality figured mahogany top rail and centre splat, elegant carved mahogany shaped open arm, newly reupholstered drop in seat in ...
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19th Century English Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Other

19th C. Regency Painted Pole Fire Screens, a Pair, The Betty Seeler Collection
Located in Morristown, NJ
A pair of fine English Regency painted pole screens from The Elizabeth Seeler Collection. 19th c., one depicting a young man, the other a young woman, bo...
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Early 19th Century British Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Wood, Mahogany, Paint

Pair Of Regency Mahogany Hall Chairs 1810 Gillows Of Lancaster Country House
Located in London, GB
A gorgeous, fine and very unusual pair of carved mahogany Regency large hall chairs in wonderful condition. Attributed to world-renowned Gillows of Lancaster and likely made around 1...
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1810s British Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Mahogany

Regency Rosewood Drum Table
Located in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire
A fine quality Regency rosewood drum table with attractive brass stringing, good small size and original colour and patina. Handsome faceted column, sabre legs and cup castors with a...
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1810s English Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Rosewood

Set of Six Regency Klismos Chairs, attributed to Gillows
Located in Richmond, London
A very fine and elegant Regency period set of SIX 'Klismos' side chairs after designs by Thomas Hope, the manufacture attributed to Gillows. England, circa 1810. Why we like them These superb quality, wonderfully stylish Klismos chairs correspond to a design published in Thomas Hope's ‘A Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration' (1807), visible on the view of the Picture Gallery at the designer's own Duchess Street mansion in London. A particularly fine and rare design, very comfortable and of great scale and proportions, these super smart chairs...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Upholstery, Hardwood

Beautiful Set Of Six William IV Dining Chairs
Located in Crawley, GB
We delight to offer for sale this amazing set of six William IV rosewood cane seat dining chairs, with squab cushion seats and standing on reeded tapering legs to the front and out s...
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Early 19th Century British Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Hardwood

Calamander Sofa Table
Located in Greenwich, CT
An English sofa table with rounded corner rectangular top in rare calamander wood and edge inlay of calamander and ebony above scrolled front apron with gilt bronze flowers and two d...
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1820s English Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Mahogany

Ridgway Porcelain Milk Jug or Creamer Pattern 2/1005, Regency Period, circa 1825
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a very decorative, porcelain milk jug or creamer in the early Grecian shape, made by John and William Ridgway, of Shelton, Hanley, Staffordshire Potteries, England, dating to...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Porcelain

Monumental Oak Fireplace, 19th Century
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Antique oak wood fireplace inspired by the fireplace in the Hercules Salon in Versailles Palace. This antique Regence style fireplace was made out of carved oak wood in the late 19th...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Oak

Antique English Regency Style Fireplace Mantel in Statuary and Jasper Marble
Located in London, GB
An antique English fireplace in the regency manner, in Statuary and Jasper marbles. The jambs having an abundant use of Jasper within moulded Statuary white ingrounds and outgrounds. The conforming frieze flanked at either end by carved Statuary white marble roundels...
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19th Century English Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Statuary Marble

Nineteenth century brass hallway lantern
Located in London, GB
A nineteenth century brass hallway lantern, each bracket with greek key scroll to the top and terminating in an anthemion mount, the frame with evidence of old worn gilt-lacquered su...
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Mid-19th Century British Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Brass

19th Century Regency Painted Armchairs
Located in Richmond, London
An elegant pair of painted open armchairs from the early 19th century English Regency era, exquisitely hand-painted to simulate exotic timber and decorated with neoclassical festive ...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Wood, Cane, Paint

Regency Large Mahogany Hall Bench, in the Manner of Tatham and Marsh
Located in Sherborne, GB
Attributed to Gillows of Lancaster, in the manner of Tatham and Marsh, this Regency hall bench/window seat is one of the best examples of English fu...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Mahogany

Regency Giltwood & Gesso Overmantle Mirror
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A Very Attractive Regency Period, 19th Century, Giltwood And Gesso Overmantle Mirror, Having Attractive Carved Decoration To Top Incorporating Central Carved Shell And Foliate Scroll...
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Mid-19th Century English Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Gesso, Giltwood

Regency style Antique Octagonal Burled Fruitwood Side Table
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Gorgeous burled fruitwood 19th century octagonal side table having carved wood base in the Regency style.
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19th Century American Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Fruitwood

Regency Rosewood Sarcophagus Tea Caddy
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A Very Attractive Late Regency Period Rosewood Tea Caddy, Of Elegant Sarcophagus Form, Having Domed Lid With Mother Of Pearl Inlaid Decoration, Enclosing Two Lidded Divisions, Raised...
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Mid-19th Century English Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Rosewood

Regency Mahogany Serpentine Footstool w/ Chevron Pattern Needlepoint Upholstery
Located in Savannah, GA
This large size square mahogany footstool features serpentine sides, round bun feet and is upholstered with attractive chevron pattern needlepoint in cream, gold and rust colors. A h...
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1820s English Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Wool, Mahogany

A Large And Fine Antique Mahogany Display Case
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A refined antique display or bookcase with fine proportions and great wood graining. With a glass door having a working key opening to an oak paneled back and three wood slat adjusta...
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Late 19th Century Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Glass, Mahogany

Antique 19th Century English Regency Warm Brown Mahogany Occasional Table
Located in Casteren, NL
A beautiful English occasional or side table with a solid mahogany top that rests on a turned central baluster-shaped column. The central column ends in a quadriform platform with sc...
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Mid-19th Century English Antique Regency Furniture

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Mahogany, Oak, Lacquer

Regency Mahogany Breakfast Table
Located in Essex, MA
With oval tilting one board top with molded edge, on a columnar support joined by four splayed legs with brass cup casters. Provenance; Heirs of A.B Dick, Bellevue Ave, Newport RI.
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1810s English Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Brass

Mahogany Davenport Attributed to Gillows
Located in Folkestone, GB
Attributed to Gillows A superior quality late 18th/early 19th century mahogany Davenport Desk The leather-lined top with brass gallery, lifting to ...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Mahogany

Pair of antique Regency mahogany hall chairs in the manner of Gillows
Located in Castle Douglas, GB
A pair of antique Regency mahogany hall chairs, the oval backs with gadrooned scroll carving terminating with domed paterae and supported by a pair of carved scrolls. The tapered boa...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Mahogany

Spode Dessert Service, Ship Pattern no. 3133 on Stone China, 1813-1822
Located in London, GB
This is a stunning and rare Spode dessert service made between 1813 and 1822, consisting of a centre piece, a lozenge shape dish, four shell dish...
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1810s English Antique Regency Furniture

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Stoneware

Louis XVI style fireplace in white Carrara marble, circa 1880
Located in Honnelles, WHT
Louis XVI style fireplace in white Carrara marble, circa 1880 Dimensions of the fireplace: 83,5 x 93
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Early 19th Century French Antique Regency Furniture

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Marble

Regency Giltwood Convex Mirror
Located in Woodbury, CT
Regency giltwood convex mirror with eagle pediment mount and scrolling acanthus details. Original water gilt finish with warm antique patina and reeded solid ebony inner mount aroun...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Giltwood, Mirror

Pair of Regency Ebonized Klismos Side Chairs
Located in Essex, MA
Each with a curved wide seat rail with grape leaves and grapes central decoration, upholstered seat, raised on exaggerated saber legs. Provenance; Estate of William Hodgins, Interior...
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1810s English Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Wood

Antique Brass Inlaid English Regency Mahogany Double Tea Caddy Box 19th Century
Located in Dublin, Ireland
Superb Example of an English Regency well grained Mahogany Double Tea Caddy of traditional rectangular outline, with lavish brass scrolling inlay decoration and complete fitted inter...
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19th Century English Antique Regency Furniture

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Brass

English Regency Red Lacquer Wall Clock
Located in Queens, NY
English Regency-style (19/20th Century) red lacquer Chinoiserie parliamentary wall clock. (Not working)
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19th Century British Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Lacquer

Pair of English Regency Faux Painted and Gilt Armchairs, Circa 1820
Located in Charleston, SC
Pair of English Regency faux painted and gilt armchairs with quatrefoil and cross hatching splat backs, scrolled arms, and terminating on faux bamboo legs. Chairs have been upholster...
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1820s English Antique Regency Furniture

Pair of 19th Century English Regency Walnut Side Tables with Carved Details
Located in Atlanta, GA
A refined pair of 19th-century English Regency walnut tables, blending sculptural elegance with timeless craftsmanship. Their round tops showcase rich walnut grain with intricate bur...
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19th Century English Antique Regency Furniture

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Walnut

19th Century Regency Mahogany 6-Drawer Collectors Chest
Located in Nantucket, MA
English Regency period mahogany collectors chest with ebonized detail. The mahogany case having six drawers with turned pulls, figured mahogany top with molded edge and sitting on a ...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Furniture

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Mahogany

Set of Eight Regency Bronze Mounted Mahogany Dining Chairs
Located in Pittsburgh, PA
This set of eight English Regency dining chairs include two armchairs with scrolled arms. Each backrest features a gilt bronze lifting handle and oak leaf wreath form splat. The stra...
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19th Century English Antique Regency Furniture

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Bronze

Pair of Regency Cut-Glass Hurricane Lights
Located in Steyning, West sussex
A fine pair of Regency hurricane lights the ormolu-mounted step cut bases supporting radial cut drip pans with fan edge hung with round end rule drop...
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1810s British Antique Regency Furniture

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Cut Glass

Very Rare Gillows of Lancaster Regency Hardwood Harpist Height Adjustable Chair
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to this stunning and very rare original Gillows of Lancaster Rosewood height-adjustable Harpist musician stool A very good looking ...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Furniture

Materials

Wood, Beech

Regency Cut Glass Butter Dish and Stand
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very fine antique cut glass lidded butter dish on matching stand dating from around 1825. The butter dish is of wide rounded shape and has a narrow round cut foot which sits within...
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1820s English Antique Regency Furniture

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Cut Glass

Regency furniture for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a broad range of unique Regency furniture for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage furniture created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include tables, seating, case pieces and storage cabinets and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with wood, metal and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Regency furniture made in a specific country, there are Europe, United Kingdom, and England pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original furniture, popular names associated with this style include Baker Furniture Company, Leighton Hall Furniture, Spode, and Jonathan Sainsbury. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for furniture differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $30 and tops out at $495,994 while the average work can sell for $3,772.

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