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.
Find a collection of antique Regency tables, seating, decorative objects and other furniture on 1stDibs.
Fine Regency Flame Mahogany Lyre Base Side Table Games Table
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A fine Regency flame mahogany Lyre style based side table games table in a Regency style. When closed it makes a perfect side table/breakfast or console, when open it is a square tab...
Mahogany
$4,318Sale Price / set|20% Off
PAIR OF VINTAGE FRENCH SIDE TABLES ONE WiTH A SPECIMEN PIETRA DURA MARBLE TOP
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this exquisite pair of circa vintage French Ebonized side tables one of which has a Pietra Dura Specimen marble top Please note ...
Marble
Very Good Mahogany Ooccasional Lamp Table
Located in Swadlincote, GB
Lovely quality mahogany end lamp table with full width drawer and brass gallery, in overall very good colour and condition. 26"high 26" square You are welcome to view this item at...
Mahogany
Regency Amboyna and parcel gilt end support library table
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A Regency Amboyna and gilt library table attributed to Seddon and Morel, the rectangular top set upon solid end supports with a turned, reeded and gilded stretcher and gilded foliate...
Amboyna
$28,000
Large Georgian Round Table
Located in Greenwich, CT
Very fine and usefully large round Georgian center/breakfast table, the substantial tilt top with reeded edge over cluster turned supports on platform base with reeded sabre legs en...
Mahogany
Pair of Regency Style Giltwood Designer Marbella Side Tables by Randy Esada
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
Pair of Regency style giltwood designer Marbella side tables by Randy Esada. Note: Custom orders require a deposit and cannot be canceled. All custom order deposits are non-refund...
Marble
Pair of 19th Century English Regency St. Crotch Mahogany Consoles
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A handsome pair of English 19th century Regency st. freestanding flamed mahogany consoles with all original patina. The pair are raised by mottled concave 'S' scrolled bases. Above a...
Marble
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...
Birdseye Maple
$2,625Sale Price|25% Off
Regency Rosewood Library Table with Lyre Base
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Stunning early 19th century style side table in figured rosewood. The top with rounded corners and inlaid with boxwood is supported by a simple rosewood veneered frieze with a drawer...
Rosewood
Pair of 19th Century English Regency Gonçalo Alves Card Tables with Brass Inlay
Located in London, GB
A pair of Regency card tables Constructed in Gonçalo Alves, and dressed with extensive brass marquetry work; rising from quadripartite swept legs terminating in brass anthemion decorated toes with inset brass castors, conjoining incurved rectangular plinths having gadrooned moldings; the tapering swept rectangular columns support the swiveling hinged radiused corner tops, opening to reveal green baize playing surfaces, with raised tablets to the fascias. The prolific usage of brass marquetry work in England was employed by various distinguished cabinet makers including Thomas Parker...
Bronze
$3,224Sale Price|20% Off
Late 18th Century Regency Occasional Table
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
A Regency period occasional table painted to simulate marbles and rosewood, English circa 1790-1810, the canted rectangular top painted in a variety of colors with twenty-four panels...
Bronze
19th Century Low Console Table
Located in Dublin 8, IE
19th century low console table with crossbanded top and a carved walnut edge. The double pedestal cabriole legs terminate in carved hairy paw feet. ...
Walnut
19th Century English Regency Sofa / Library Table
Located in Dublin, IE
A stunning quality Regency sofa table, the rounded rectangular top with drop-leaf ends and a bead moulded edge, above a pair of frieze drawers, raised on tapered and foliate carved t...
Wood
Regency Inlaid Mahogany Tilt Top Center Table
Located in Pasadena, CA
This is a beautifully detailed satinwood and ebony inlaid mahogany breakfast table that dates to the early 19th century. The table is in overall very good condition, retaining its or...
Brass
$3,006Sale Price / set|20% Off
Pair of Vintage Flamed Walnut & Inlaid Regency Style Tripod Side End Lamp Tables
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning pair of flamed walnut with box wood inlay lamp side tables They are a very good looking well made a...
Walnut
$1,421Sale Price / set|25% Off
Mid-Century Italian Regency Serge Roche Inspired Carved Wood Pedestals - Pair
By Serge Roche
Located in Kennesaw, GA
This is a pair of regency style Italian carved wood pedestals. The manner of the carvings reminds me of French designer Serge Roche. They are ivory with light green accents. They are...
Wood
CIRCA 1820 REGENCY ROSEWOOD TILT TOP CENTER TABLE w/ TRIPOD BASE
Located in New Orleans, LA
A fine Regency rosewood circular tilt-top table, showcasing a beautifully faded and richly figured book-matched rosewood veneer top. The circular top is raised on a ring-turned pedes...
Rosewood
Regency Mahogany Rectangular Wine Table
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A Good Quality Regency Period, Early 19th Century, Mahogany Occasional Wine Table, Having Superbly Figured Rectangular Top And Frieze, Over Reverse Tapering Turned Column And Three E...
American Mahogany
Regency-Period Rosewood Card Tables
Located in New Orleans, LA
These exceptional Regency card tables were designed with dual purposes in mind. Crafted of rosewood, the tables serve as attractive console tables when closed. When opened, the table...
Brass
19th Century English Regency Flip Top Chessboard Games Table
Located in Forney, TX
A fine quality, exquisitely handcrafted, antique English games / sewing table finished in Regency taste. Born during the third quarter of the 19th century, featuring stunning burl wa...
Leather, Satinwood, Walnut
19th Century Regency Period Sofa Table
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality, elegant Regency period mahogany sofa table, having unusual Coromandel crossbanding to the top, two crossbanded mahogany lined frieze drawers, two end supports with th...
Mahogany
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...
Padouk
French Régence Period Carved Giltwood Table with Mirror, Early 18th Century
Located in London, GB
French Régence period carved giltwood table with mirror, Early 18th Century French, c.1720 Height 68cm, width 44cm, depth 33cm The wonderfully executed carved giltwood surface o...
Mirror, Giltwood
English 19th Century Regency Style Mahogany, Kingwood and Ormolu Center Table
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A handsome and extremely elegant English 19th century Regency st. mahogany, kingwood and ormolu center table. The table is raised by a triangular shaped base with concave sides and r...
Ormolu
$1,632 / set
Wonderful Pair Painted Occasional Lamp Tables
Located in Swadlincote, GB
A super pair of French three tier original painted and gilt occasional lamp tables, wonderful shape and in overall excellent condition. 22" high 26" wide 22" depth You are welcome ...
Beech
Antique Regency Pollard Oak Lamp Table Lift Top Carved Base Occasional Table
Located in Suffolk, GB
A very attractive antique Regency period pollard oak lamp table of elegant proportions and excellent colour. The top shows beautifully figured pollard oak chosen for its rich swirlin...
Oak
Pair of 19th Century Regency Period Rosewood Étagère End Tables
Located in London, GB
A Fine Pair of Regency Period Rosewood Étagères Of elegant proportions, with carved tapering and ring-turned rosewood supports, standing on brass castors, each of the three shelves ...
Brass
Antique English Regency Mahogany Brass Inlaid Fold Over Console Card Table
Located in Suffolk, GB
A fine antique English mahogany fold-over table dating from the Regency period, designed to function both as a console table and a traditional card table. The rectangular top with ro...
Brass
Regency amboyna centre table, attr. to E H Baldock
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
Late Regency Amboyna centre table, attributed to the workshop of Edward Holmes Baldock. The circular top with a shaped apron set upon a solid trif...
Amboyna
Regency Mahogany Sofa Side Table, circa 1800
Located in Potters Bar, GB
Regency mahogany Sofa Table, standing on brass claw castors with a reeded swept leg. Having 4 ring turned columns. circa 1800 The top comprising of 2 working drawers and 2 dummy d...
Mahogany
$1,837Sale Price / set|25% Off
Louis Scalera English Regency Mahogany and Tooled Leather Pedestal Side Tables
Located in Germantown, MD
Louis Scalera English Regency Mahogany and Tooled Leather Pedestal Side Tables. PAIR OF LOUIS SCALERA MAHOGANY AND TOOLED LEATHER TOP QUADPAD PEDESTAL SIDE TABLES These beautiful Car...
Brass
Antique Regency Quality Mahogany Card Table
Located in Suffolk, GB
Antique Regency quality mahogany card table having a quality figured mahogany crossbanded swivel top opening to reveal a green baize mahogany frieze with a moulded edge supported by ...
Other
Petite Maitland Smith Burl Wood Regency style Leather Top End Table
Located in Long Branch, NJ
Petite Maitland Smith Burl Wood Regency style Leather Top End Table Dimensions : 22" Wide X 22" Deep X 30" Tall This regency style table was made by Maitland Smith in the Regency S...
Burl
Fine 19th Century Irish Regency Period Oval Top Mahogany Table
Located in Richmond, VA
Fine 19th century Irish Regency period oval breakfast table. Good color and great quality timbers used in this period Irish table. Oval top over turned p...
Mahogany
A Stunning Early 19th Century Regency Simple Design Turn Over Leaf Tea Table
Located in Dublin, IE
A stunning early 19th Century Regency well figured mahogany tea table of exceptional quality and of a classically simple design. This gorgeous piece is finely hand carved with beaut...
Brass
Regency Side Table, Antique Occasional Rosewood
Located in Potters Bar, GB
Very pretty regency rosewood occasional table. Standing upon brass lion paw feet with a platform base embellished with typical regency cast brass motifs and a ring turned column. T...
Rosewood
Spectacular English Regency Flame Mahogany Starburst Tilt-Top Breakfast Table
Located in Atlanta, GA
A striking English Regency flame mahogany tilt-top center or breakfast table, circa 1810–1830, conceived with the bold architectural refinement and highly decorative veneer work asso...
Birch, Mahogany
A Stunning Early 19th Century Regency Cross Banded Turn Over Leaf Card Table
Located in Dublin, IE
A stunning early 19th Century Regency well figured mahogany card table with fabulous rosewood crossbanded detail throughout. This piece is of exceptional quality, finely hand carved...
Brass
Early 19th Century Regency Sofa Table after Thomas Sheraton
Located in Dublin 8, IE
Early 19th Century Regency drop leaf sofa table in the manner of Thomas Sheraton, the moulded top of rectangular form with rounded corners...
Brass
Antique English Regency Period Rosewood Console Table, circa 1810-1830
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique English Regency period rosewood console table, circa 1810-1830.
Rosewood
Lacor/TA Square Table by Fabrizio Smania for Studio Smania Interni, 1970s
By Smania
Located in modena, Emilia-Romagna
Lacor/TA Square Table for Eight, designed by Fabrizio Smania in the 1970s for Studio Smania Interni. Made of steel, it features a gold-plated steel fra...
Crystal, Brass
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...
Rosewood
$7,982Sale Price|20% Off
Antique 4-6 Seat Extending Dining Table, English, Country House, Centre, Regency
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique 4-6 seat extending dining table. An English, mahogany country house centre table, dating to the Regency period, circa 1820. A dashing centrepiece dining table, wi...
Mahogany
Elegant Regency Brass Mounted Flame Mahogany Side Table
Located in Lincolnshire, GB
A Regency period mahogany two drawer table with reeded legs and brass stringing, original casters and cedar wood draw linings. Fine colour and patina.
Mahogany
$1,106Sale Price|25% Off
Regency Style Mahogany Three Tier Side Table
Located in Germantown, MD
Regency Style mahogany three tier side table. Measures 18" in depth, 18" in width and stands 28.5" tall. Sheld clearance in 8".
Mahogany
Fine Quality 19th Century Regency Antique Free Standing Lamp/Side Table
Located in Suffolk, GB
Fine quality 19th Century Regency antique free standing lamp/side table having a fine quality mahogany top having two drop leaves with ebony inlay stringing standing on four turned...
Other
$5,000 / item
Regency Round Side Table
Located in Westwood, NJ
Masterfully crafted from crotch mahogany veneer. The table features elegant crossbanding, enhancing its timeless beauty. Supported by barley twist-turned legs, it exudes a sense o...
Wood
Circa 1920s Regency Painted Walnut Flip-Top Table with Hand-Painted Lyre
Located in Elkhart, IN
An elegant Regency-style flip-top side table in painted walnut, featuring hand-painted gold decoration against a deep green ground. The tabletop is centered with a classical lyre mot...
Walnut, Paint
19th Century Mahogany Regency Style Table
Located in New York, NY
19th century mahogany Regency style center table. This table can be used as a center, breakfast or dining table. Has a pedestal base with heavily carved scroll feet.
Mahogany
Vintage Marble Top Column Drum Style Table in Gold
Located in Saddle River, NJ
Bring a touch of regal elegance and classic architectural charm to your living space or bedroom with this stunning vintage marble top column drum style table in a radiant gold finish...
Marble
Baker Furniture French Regency Louis XVI Carved Cherry Tea Tables, Refinished
Located in South Bend, IN
A gorgeous pair of French Regency Louis XVI style nightstands, tea tables, or end tables By Baker Furniture USA, Circa 1960s Carved cherry wood, with stunning book-matched burled ...
Brass
$5,945Sale Price|20% Off
Antique Dumb Waiter, English Two Tier Afternoon Tea Serving Stand, Regency, 1820
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique dumb waiter. An English, mahogany two tier afternoon tea serving or jardiniere stand, dating to the Regency period, circa 1820. Of superb form and proportion wit...
Mahogany
$32,000 / set
Antique Pair of Magnificent Pedestals
Located in Atlanta, GA
Pair of opulent hand carved giltwood pedestals. The round part on top is removable, it is a stand for a statue, etc.
Wood
English Antique Oak Drum Top Library Table by William Freeman of Norwich
Located in London, GB
An attractive drum top library table by William Freeman of Norwich The design of this centre table is drawn from the noted work of Richard Br...
Bronze
Brunschwig & Fils Vintage French Regency Scrolled Iron & Wood Side Accent Table
Located in Dayton, OH
"990s Brunschwig & Fils side table. Drawing inspiration from Florentine and French styling. Made from scrolled iron with a reddish brown top featuring golden florets framed within a ...
Iron
19th Century Regency Burr Walnut Centre Table with Secret Drawers
Located in Hoddesdon, GB
An exceptional and highly unusual Regency pedestal centre table, dating from the early 19th century, beautifully embodies the refined neoclassical style of the period. Crafted from r...
Walnut
$1,271Sale Price|25% Off
Maitland-Smith Banded Mahogany Barley Twist Legs Side Table
Located in Germantown, MD
Maitland-Smith Banded Mahogany Barley Twist Leg Side Table. 32" wide, 24" in depth and 22" in height.
Mahogany
Rich Elegant Biltmore Estate Mahogany and Marble Top Round Side Table
Located in Hopewell, NJ
A rich & elegant round mahogany side table having 2 drawers and 2 pull out leather slides as well as a sumptuous marble top. Legs are tapered and terminate in brass caps and casters. Biltmore Estate...
Marble
Early 19th Century Rosewood Pembroke Table, Regency Period
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
An Extremely Good Quality Regency Period Rosewood Baby Pembroke Table, Having Superbly Figured Drop Flap Top, Over Frieze Drawer With Corresponding False Drawer To Reverse And Replac...
Rosewood
Mahogany Davenport Attributed to Gillows
By Gillows of Lancaster & London
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 ...
Mahogany