Regency Desks and Writing Tables
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
Regency Amboyna and Gilt Library Table Attributed to Seddon and Morel
By Morel & Seddon
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A Regency amboyna and gilt library table attributed to Seddon and Morel, with a rectangular top set upon solid end supports with a turned, reeded an...
Category
1810s English Antique Regency Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Amboyna
Regency Mahogany writing table with Rachet top
By King & Sons
Located in Dereham, GB
Regency Mahogany writing table with Rachet top
Mahogany top with removeable book rest,
Top lifts up and adjusts the height with the rachet support,
inside fitted with pen tray and i...
Category
Early 19th Century British Antique Regency Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Mahogany
$2,006 Sale Price
20% Off
Regency Neoclassical Mahogany Library Table in the manner of Richard Bridgen
By Richard Bridgens
Located in Glasgow, GB
A superb quality late Regency mahogany and ebonised library table in the manner of the architect and designer Richard Bridgens (1785-1846). With a canted top with a green and gilt t...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
19th Century English Regency Walnut Writing Table in the Manner of Holland &Sons
Located in Dublin, IE
A George IV walnut rectangular writing table, the top with inset leather scriver above a shaped frieze drawer, raised on pairs of turned side supports with lotus collars and stretche...
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19th Century English Antique Regency Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
Vintage Regency Hand Painted Gladiator Writing Desk
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A fantastic Vintage Regency writing desk. Beautiful hand painted detail with scenes of gladiators. Passed down through three generations in one family. A real collectors piece. Acqui...
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Late 20th Century North American Regency Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Paint
$2,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Italy Late 18th Century Regency Walnut Desk or Side Table
Located in Brescia, IT
This is an elegant gaming table, hand made in the Late 18th Century by master craftmenships. The spectacular top of this charming table, is handmade in walnut with fine briar root a...
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Late 18th Century Italian Antique Regency Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
$3,544 Sale Price
46% Off
19th century Rosewood Writing Table
Located in Seaford, GB
Manner of Gillows Regency Rosewood Library Table
Regency Craftsmanship
This superb Regency rosewood library or writing table is a stunning example of craftsmanship and elegance, e...
Category
Early 19th Century British Antique Regency Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
Early 19th Century English Writing Table In The Manner Of George Bullock
Located in Dublin, IE
A very fine Early 19th century English REgency bird's maple writing table in the manner of George Bullock, of rectangular outline the shaped top with leather inset writing surface ab...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Birdseye Maple
19th Century Regency Writing Table, circa 1820
Located in Richmond, London
A superb quality Regency side table in the manner of Gillows. Rare combination of the most beautiful figuring of the carefully selected veneers, superb craftsmanship, compact scale a...
Category
Early 19th Century European Antique Regency Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Leather
Regency Mahogany And Inlaid Writing Table
Located in Essex, MA
Removed from the one time residence of William Randolph Hearst and Marion Davies Beverly Hills home. With rectangular top with 3/4 brass gallery and blac...
Category
Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Regency Mahogany Writing Table
Located in Essex, MA
Rectangular red tooled leather top with cross banded edge over three drawers and three on the reverse, all working so can function as a partners desk with brass ring handles. raised ...
Category
1810s English Antique Regency Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
Regency Mahogany Writing Table By Gillows Of Lancaster
Located in Essex, MA
With a rectangular top with leather writing surface that can adjust. The ends with hinged compartments. The frieze with a drawer. Raised on a trestle base with spindles and turned st...
Category
1810s English Antique Regency Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Regency Gilt Bronze Mounted Rosewood Writing Table in the style of John McLean
Located in Kittery Point, ME
The bronze-mounted rectangular top with rounded incurved corners‚ above a single frieze drawer‚ raised on a trestle base ending in downswept legs on casters joined by a turned stretcher.
This very elegant table beautifully illustrates the most refined Regency furniture where rosewood is contrasted with gilt bronze. This type of furniture is traditionally associated with the celebrated cabinet maker John McLean (1770-1825) who is believed to have furnished pieces to the Prince Regent...
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19th Century English Antique Regency Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Metal
$8,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Regency Rosewood Writing Table with Later Marble Top
Located in New York, NY
Early 19th century Regency rosewood writing table with later marble top.
Category
19th Century British Antique Regency Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Marble
Regency free standing Gonzalo Alves writing table or library table
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A late Regency free standing Gonzalo Alves writing table or library table, the rectangular top set above two frieze drawers on one side and dummy drawers to the reverse, raised upon ...
Category
1820s English Antique Regency Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
Regency Style Writing Table
Located in Hudson, NY
A very nice mahogany and crotch mahogany veneered writing table raised up on marble columns with bronze bases. The writing surface is leather with gold tooling. This table though not...
Category
20th Century English Regency Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Mahogany
A fine Regency period satinwood and leather top writing desk . Parcel gilt
Located in Dallas, TX
A fine 19th century Regency satinwood and parcel gilt two drawer writing desk . Original leather top .
Category
Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Satinwood
Regency period brass inlaid Library table, circa 1820
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality Regency period Rosewood Library table, having brass inlaid stringing, an inset leather top, a single frieze drawer, end supports, raised on elegant out swept feet...
Category
Early 19th Century French Antique Regency Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Pair of English Regency Period Rosewood Writing Tables
Located in Stamford, CT
Pair of English Regency period rosewood writing tables with gold tooled green leather tops. The pair were most likely formerly used as school desks for privately educated students.
Category
Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Rosewood
Regency Davenport Desk Flame Mahogany 1830s Georgian Freemans Fine Country House
By Jeremiah and William Freeman, William Freeman
Located in London, GB
A beautiful, special and very rare flame mahogany Georgian Davenport in wonderful condition. Made by heralded furniture makers Freemans of Norwich, most likely in the 1830s, this fabulous and very much still highly usable Davenport will add superb quality, beautiful colour and bygone sophistication to any interior.
Beautifully crafted from flame mahogany, this Davenport is extremely solid and reassuringly heavy. It features a sliding locking desktop ideal for storing a laptop and papers, four large locking drawers to the left side with dummy drawers to the right and a pull-out inkwell drawer complete with ink bottle. A beautiful and extremely rare feature are the pair of concealed slide-out candle holder ledges, much-needed for late-night 19th Century letter writing – this is the only Davenport we know of to have these.
The sloping desk is adorned with the original racing green leather centrepiece with gold embellishments and has a bordered flat upper ledge. The front is decorated with four beautiful Corinthian carvings, most likely by William Freeman snr, who was renowned for his superb carving work. It has an impressive and imposing, shapely, Romanesque base and is set on attractive gadroon-mounted wheels for ease of movement.
The drawers and dummy drawers have beautiful handles and brass-fronted locks and inside the desk are two opening upper drawers and two lower dummy drawers (where the inkwell slides behind). It has the Freemans stencil to the underside of one the drawers and has pencil marks underneath the base which appears to read “Palmer SC23”, which we haven’t been able to definitively trace but might indicate that it was built for General Charles Palmer, MP for Bath in the early 19th Century, who was married in 1823.
Freemans of Norwich were a family of celebrated furniture makers based in the city around the first half of the 19th Century – father William and sons...
Category
1830s British Antique Regency Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
English 19th Century Painted Bamboo Style Table
Located in Southampton, NY
English 19th century painted bow front table with bamboo carved legs.
Category
1810s European Antique Regency Desks and Writing Tables
Late Regency Rosewood Free Standing Library Table by James Winter
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A late Regency rosewood free standing library table, by James Winter, the rectangular leather-inset top with a gadrooned edge and frieze enclosin...
Category
Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Rosewood
Early 19th Century Regency Period Rosewood Writing Table
Located in London, GB
A fine early 19th century Regency period rosewood writing table, having rectangular bow end tooled leather top, above beaded frieze with 2 real & 2 dummy drawers raised on end-suppor...
Category
Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Rosewood
Early 19th Century English Regency Writing Table / Library Table
Located in Dublin, IE
A fine Regency writing table or sofa table, the rectangular top with finely rounded edges and molded edge detailing
above two frieze drawer with opposing simulated drawers, each fit...
Category
Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
Regency desks and writing tables for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Regency desks and writing tables 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 desks and writing tables created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include tables, case pieces and storage cabinets, asian art and furniture and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with wood, mahogany and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Regency desks and writing tables 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 desks and writing tables, popular names associated with this style include Baker Furniture Company, Gillows of Lancaster & London, Ira Yeager, and Maitland Smith. 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 desks and writing tables differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $1,095 and tops out at $162,452 while the average work can sell for $7,229.
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