Regency Vanities
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.
Find a collection of antique Regency tables, seating, decorative objects and other furniture on 1stDibs.
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Style: Regency
English Mahogany Beau Brummell Gentleman Dressing Desk, Aristocratic Pedigree
By Maple & Co.
Located in Vero Beach, FL
English Mahogany Beau Brummell Gentleman dressing desk. Aristocratic Pedigree.
Outstanding example of a rare mechanical piece of furniture of museum quality. The luxurious polished Mahogany desk is raised on four square tapered legs on brass casters. Beautiful proportions give it a regal appearance. This elaborate and ingenious construction is master crafted by the cabinet maker, Maple Company of London. A spring-loaded mechanism lifts the top to reveal a triptych beveled mirror and a spectacular display of a multitude of hallmarked Vermeil silver and cut crystal vanity suites by Charles and Richard Comyns. Every piece is fully hallmarked and engraved with the crown of a count and monogrammed. The desk has it’s original finish, pencil inlay and original brass hardware, like hinges and catches. This statement piece represents the modern concept of glamour and luxury.
Maple and Company of London furnished Tsar Nicholas’s Winter Palace and the Hofburg Imperial Palace in Vienna among other Royal Houses. This dressing vanity desk from the turn of the century is from the estate of the American actor and Real Estate millionaire Percy Garnett Williams (1857-1923)
Condition: Original antique surface...
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Late 19th Century English Antique Regency Vanities
Materials
Mahogany
19th French Regency Carved Walnut Console Table with Drawer & Marble Top
Located in Miami, FL
19th French Regency carved walnut console table with drawer & marble top
19th century French Regence style. White cream marble top with front drawer, over hand-carved frieze support...
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Regency Vanities
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Marble
French Regency Carved Walnut Console Table with White Marble Top
Located in Miami, FL
20th French Regency carved walnut console table with marble top
20th century French Regence style beautifully carved with leaves walnut console. White marble top with carved front, over hand-carved frieze...
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Early 20th Century French Regency Vanities
Materials
Marble
Antique 19th C. Italian Regency Tole Metal Flip Top Yellow Vanity Sink Drysink
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Antique 19th C. Italian Regency Tole Metal Flip Top Yellow Vanity Sink Drysink. Item features a rectangular form, inset water basin with mirror, three drawers, and lower storage. Pai...
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Late 19th Century Unknown Antique Regency Vanities
Materials
Metal
Regency Mahogany Dressing Table
Located in Wilson, NC
Simple Regency Mahogany dressing table with 5 drawers: one center and two each right and left. Original brasses.
Category
Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Vanities
Materials
Brass
Large French Regency Carved Walnut Console Table with White Marble Top '2 Avai'
Located in Miami, FL
19th French Regency carved walnut console table with marble top
19th century French Regence style beautifully carved with leaves walnut console. White marble top with carved front, over hand-carved frieze...
Category
Early 20th Century French Regency Vanities
Materials
Marble
Large French Regency Carved Walnut Console Table with Gilted details and drawer
Located in Miami, FL
20th French Regency carved walnut console table with gilted edges
20th century French Regence style beautifully carved with leaves walnut console. Green marble top with carved fron...
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Early 20th Century French Regency Vanities
Materials
Marble
Maitland-Smith Tortoise Style Veneer Vanity and Stool
Located in North Miami, FL
Rich and beautiful Art Deco inspired tortoise finish vanity and stool with bevel mirror top.
Bench dimensions: 28.5 wide, 16 inches deep, 20 inches seat height.
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1970s American Vintage Regency Vanities
Materials
Horn, Canvas, Mirror
Regency Mahogany and Gilt Bronze Side Table
Located in Stamford, CT
A very fine Continental Regency period mahogany lift-top dressing table with high quality bronze dore legs and mounts. The columns with capitals decorated with palm leaves and papyrus flowers...
Category
Early 19th Century French Antique Regency Vanities
Materials
Mahogany
20th Century French Regency Carved Walnut Console Table with Drawer
Located in Miami, FL
20th century French Regency carved walnut console table with drawer
20th century French Regence style beautifully carved with leaves walnut console. Wood top with front drawer, o...
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Regency Vanities
Materials
Walnut
Large French Regency Carved Walnut Console Table with Gilted Edges
Located in Miami, FL
20th French Regency carved walnut console table with gilted edges
20th century French Regence style beautifully carved with leaves walnut console. Wood top with carved front, over ...
Category
Early 20th Century French Regency Vanities
Materials
Marble
Italy Early 19th Century Walnut Vanity Table
Located in Brescia, IT
This elegant vanities table is a not easy to found among the ancient pieces; the top can be opened and inside there are numerous compartments useful for storing the various elements....
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Early 19th Century Italian Antique Regency Vanities
Materials
Glass, Walnut
19th French Regency Wall Carved Walnut Console Table
Located in Miami, FL
19th century French Regence style beautifully carved with leaves walnut console. Hand-carved frieze supported by three cabriole legs connected by X-form stretchers centered by large ...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Antique Regency Vanities
Materials
Marble
Italian Regency Hand Carved Maple Pier Console or Dressing Table with Mirror
By Filippo Pelagio Palagi, Gabriele Capello
Located in Firenze, IT
This Italian Regency period pier console or dressing table with swivel mirror and marble top is made of solid and burl maple wood and it's a one of a kind piece that expresses the joint result of Italian high end cabinet-making and design mastery with its elaborate carvings with fancy animalier patterns in the form of swans and dolphins and penwork drawings throughout.
Sourced in a private estate of an important Italian collector in Turin, Pendimont, this museum quality piece of furniture was probably made on commission and recalls the works of Gabriele Capello known as “il Moncalvo” on Pelagio Palagi...
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Mid-19th Century Italian Antique Regency Vanities
Materials
Marble
19th French Regency Carved Walnut Console Table with Drawer & Marble Top
Located in Miami, FL
19th French Regency carved walnut console table with drawer & marble top
19th century French Regence style beautifully carved with leaves walnut console. White cream marble top wi...
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Regency Vanities
Materials
Marble
Regency Amboyna and Brass Inlaid Gilt Bronze Mounted Pier Table
Located in Benington, Herts
An extremely elegant, rare Regency amboyna and brass inlaid gilt bronze mounted pier table. Provenance Part of Sir William Whitfield Collection.
English Regency period, Circa 1815.
The raised back with open shelf, surmounted by a pierced anthemion three quarter brass gallery above a rectangular mirror plate, flanked by gilt bronze pierced foliate scrolled supports, over a finely coloured amboyna and banded top above cut brass inlaid frieze drawer decorated with anthemion and flower head motif.
The dual tapering scroll supports with palmette lappet surmounts and cut brass inlay terminate on gilt bronze claw feet, flanking a later large mirror plate to the rear, raised on a inverted breakfront plinth base edged with gilt bonze beading. Formerly in the collection of Sir William Whitfield.
This elegant Regency pier table is a superb example with its fine quality mounts and distinctive amboyna veneers which are rarely found on furniture of this period.
The condition is excellent, having the most wonderful colour and patination to the finest cuts of amboyna that would have been available, during the early 19th century this veneer was thought to be worth more in its weight than gold.
This table would have almost certainly been especially commissioned, further research maybe undertaken to find a comparative example and insight to a potential maker.
As such pieces in amboyna are far rarer, an example of pier table has yet to be found, but an amboyna sofa table with extremely similar brass inlay and form can be seen in Clifford Musgrave’s book Regency Furniture, published by Faber and Faber in 1961, plate 63.
It is from the Royal Collection and the caption includes ‘made about 1816 for Clarement,’ (Claremont) ‘ Esher, Surrey, home of the Princess Charlotte...
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19th Century British Antique Regency Vanities
Materials
Brass, Bronze
Charming English Pine Side Table or Dressing Table
Located in Buchanan, MI
English pine side table or dressing table with single drawer.
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19th Century British Antique Regency Vanities
Materials
Pine
Large French Regency Carved Walnut Console Table with Gilted details and marble
Located in Miami, FL
20th French Regency carved walnut console table with gilted edges
20th century French Regence style beautifully carved with leaves walnut console. White marble top with carved fron...
Category
Early 20th Century French Regency Vanities
Materials
Marble
Vintage Regency Mahogany Vanity
Located in west palm beach, FL
Elevate your interior with this graceful Vintage Regency Mahogany Vanity, a timeless piece that brings charm and function to any room. Featuring classic curved legs, elegant brass pu...
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Late 20th Century British Regency Vanities
Materials
Brass
Large French Regency Carved Walnut Console Table with Gilted Edges
Located in Miami, FL
20th French Regency carved walnut console table with gilted edges
20th century French Regence style beautifully carved with leaves walnut console. Wood top with carved front, over ...
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Early 20th Century French Regency Vanities
Materials
Marble
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...
Category
Early 18th Century French Antique Regency Vanities
Materials
Mirror, Giltwood
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Regency vanities for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Regency vanities for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the Late 20th Century, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage vanities created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include tables, building and garden elements and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with wood, walnut and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Regency vanities made in a specific country, there are Europe, France, and United Kingdom pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original vanities, popular names associated with this style include Maitland Smith, and Maple & Co.. 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 vanities differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $450 and tops out at $57,336 while the average work can sell for $3,581.