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Regency Tray 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.

Find a collection of antique Regency tables, seating, decorative objects and other furniture on 1stDibs.

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Style: Regency
Period: 19th Century
Period: 1970s
English Regency Bronze Pen Tray
Located in Queens, NY
English Regency-style (19th Century) rectangular bronze pen tray with dolphin and floral relief edge.
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19th Century British Antique Regency Tray Tables

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Bronze

19th C Regency English Mahogany Adjustable Reading Writing Table
Located in Savannah, GA
This handsome piece consists of two sections on a lifting ratchet, a fine mahogany Regency period reading/writing table featuring an adjustable top over a substantial base support. R...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Tray Tables

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Brass

Fine 19th Century Papier-Mâché Tray by Jennings Bettridge, London Royal Makers
Located in Benington, Herts
A superb large hand painted papier-mâché shaped tray impressed to verso by the Royal Makers Jennens & Bettridge, London. English, circa 1830. Beautifully hand painted and gilt ...
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19th Century English Antique Regency Tray Tables

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Gold Leaf

Henry Clay Papier Mâché Lacquered Tray and Base
Located in Downingtown, PA
Georgian Opulence: Henry Clay's Lacquered Papier-mâché Tray on Faux Bamboo Stand This striking piece is a Burgundy-Ground Lacquered Papier-mâché Tray on a Faux Bamboo Stand, dating ...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Tray Tables

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Other

19th Century English Mahogany Butlers Tray Table
Located in Montreal, QC
Mahogany folding butlers tray on stand tray has four folding sides with inset brass hinges. Supported on folding stand with decorative turned supports. The dimensions are with the ...
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1830s English Antique Regency Tray Tables

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Mahogany

19th Century Mahogany English Butler s Serving Bar Tray on Wooden Stand
Located in Savannah, GA
Large mahogany butlers tray on stand featuring a rectangular shaped tray with a surround gallery. with handles on either end for easy access. On folding X frame stand with heavy wove...
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1890s English Antique Regency Tray Tables

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Mahogany

Regency Black and Gilt Papier Mache Lacquer Tray with Later Stand, 19th Century
Located in Spencertown, NY
The Chinoiserie decorated black and gilt rectangular tray stamped on the reverse "Clay, King St. Covent Garden.”.
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Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Tray Tables

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Lacquer

Regency Papier Mache Tray On Stand
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A Good Quality Regency Period Oblong Papier Mache Tray With Very Attractive Hand Painted And Gilded Decoration Raised On Elegant Later Faux Bamboo Design Stand.  What better way t...
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Mid-19th Century English Antique Regency Tray Tables

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Paper

English Hand Painted Lacquered Papier Mâché Tray Table
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Antique English tray table with a lacquered paper mâché tray painted with a landscape depicting a shepherd and his flock in the countryside ...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Tray Tables

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Faux Bamboo

Late Regency 19th Century Gillows Oak Wine Table
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A very good quality 19th century regency period oak wine table, or lamp table, attributed to gillows of lancaster, having shaped tray top with gadrooned, carved, decoration over moulded reverse tapering column with stylised lotus baluster and elegant swept tripod legs with foliate carved decoration. "Attributed To Gillows." This fine quality, charming little table follows a widely recognised design pattern which features in the Gillows Estimate Sketch Books for 16 July 1822, which refer to a "double round cornered top" and then appear again several times throughout the 1820's and 1830's. The designs are often referred to as "Flower Stands", or "Flower Tables" and there are various different itinerations to be found throuout the Regency and William IV periods. Constructed from charming, warm, rich oak veneers this little table is a great example. The carving is crisp and well executed and it retains a good colour and patina. It also remains in excellent condition and has clearly been well loved and well looked after throughout its history. The dimensions are great. Big enough to be practical and functional, but small enough to go just about anywhere around the home and serve a purpose as an antique lamp table, antique bedside table, antique wine table antique...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Tray Tables

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Oak

Regency Black and Gilt Papier Mâché Tray, c1810 with Later Custom Stand
Located in valatie, NY
This exceptional papier mâché tray is highly decorated and sits on a clustered bamboo style frame. The black and gilt painted scene is of an Asian country estate with a typical stone...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Tray Tables

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Wood, Paper

Rosewood Regency Occasional Table
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A very good quality Late Regency Period rosewood circular occasional table of unusual design, possibly originally designed for storage of wool, having two well figured circular tiers...
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Mid-19th Century English Antique Regency Tray Tables

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Rosewood

Antique 19 Century English Papier-mâché Tray Table
Located in Lambertville, NJ
A circa 1870's Papier Mache had gilt and decorated tray with a later custom dark wood base. The tray table with the tray fitting into the custom base. Can be removed and used for ser...
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1870s English Antique Regency Tray Tables

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Hardwood

Regency Mahogany Dessert Stand
Located in Essex, MA
Top shelf diameter 15.13 inches. Three graduated tiers each able to fold with a tripartite saber leg base with brass casters. Originally a dining room piece today useful to display p...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Tray Tables

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Mahogany

English Regency Style Brown Lacquered Tray Top Coffee Table
Located in Queens, NY
English Regency style (19/20th Century) brown lacquered tray top coffee table with decorative floral design and a black lacquered and gilt double fa...
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Late 19th Century British Antique Regency Tray Tables

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Faux Bamboo

Early 19th Century English Regency Side Table Attributed to Gillows of Lancaster
Located in Dublin, IE
A fine Regency mahogany occasional table attributed to Gillows of Lancaster, with tray top above frieze drawers and beaded border, on turned tapering legs with castors. Circa 1828 ...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Tray Tables

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Wood

Large Papier-mâché Tray Depicting Brighton Pavilion
Located in Folkestone, GB
A large and rare Papier-mâché and mother of pearl inlaid tray with intricate view of Brighton pavilion to the top set in a serpentine shaped surround with gilded foliate borders and ...
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19th Century English Antique Regency Tray Tables

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Lacquer

Regency Scarlet and Gilt Japanned Papier Mache Tray by Henry Clay
Located in Essex, MA
Depicting pagodas in an exotic landscape. Stamped Clay / London on back. With later base. Ex Christies Sale , Oct 17, 1997 lot 73.
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Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Tray Tables

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Lacquer, Paper

An English Regency Style Hand-Painted Wooden Hunting Tray on Stand
Located in San Francisco, CA
decorated with a scenic reserve centering a hunter on horseback beside a pair of dogs all on a black lacquered ground with gilt foliate decoration; impr...
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Late 19th Century English Antique Regency Tray Tables

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Wood

19th Century Papier Mâché Tray on Later Regency Style Stand
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A hand-painted antique tray with a figural scene of lovers and hunter in a wooded glen on papier mâché in a custom Ebonized and gilt stand with gilt ring accents and slightly flaring...
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19th Century English Antique Regency Tray Tables

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Wood, Paper

Regency Painted Tole Tray
Located in Essex, MA
Oval with red ground and gilt leaf tip outer border, beautifully painted central pastural scene.
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Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Tray Tables

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Tin

Regency Aubergine Lacquer Tray Table
Located in New York, NY
The rectangular tray with scalloped edges and deep bordered decorated in gilt with clumps of flowers and butterflies; raised on trestle end support with rotating central support so t...
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1830s English Antique Regency Tray Tables

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Wood, Lacquer

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English 19th Century Aesthetic Movement Butler s Tray
Located in Southampton, GB
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19th Century English Mahogany Satinwood Etagere Tray Table
Located in London, GB
This is a truly exceptional antique English Edwardian mahogany and satinwood marquetry oval two tier 'etagere', in the manner of Edwards & Roberts, circa 1890 in date. Crafted from the best flame mahogany, note the wonderful grain to the wood and the beautifully inlaid decoration with musical trophies within scrolling foliage and kingwood crossbanding. Masterfully inlaid with Sheraton influences, this etagere has an elegant refined look. The removable glass bottomed tray can be used to serve drinks, etc. It is raised on elegant square section tapering outswept legs with a shaped cross stretcher. The craftsmanship and finish are second to none. THE BOTANICAL NAME FOR THE MAHOGANY THAT THIS ITEM IS MADE OF IS SWIETENIA MACROPHYLLA AND THIS TYPE OF MAHOGANY IS NOT SUBJECT TO CITES REGULATION AND DOES NOT CONTAIN ANY RESTRICTED MATERIALS. Condition: In excellent condition having been beautifully cleaned and waxed in our workshops, please see photos for confirmation. Dimensions in cm: Height 84 x Width 89 x Depth 55 Dimensions in inches: Height 33.1 x Width 35.0 x Depth 21.7 Edwards & Roberts was founded in 1845, and had premises at 21 Wardour Street London. By the 1892 they occupied more than a dozen buildings in Wardour Street, where they continued to trade until the end of the century. They became one of the leading London cabinet makers and retailers working in a variety of styles, both modern and revivalist. Their business also involved retailing, adapting and restoring the finest antique furniture and there are many examples of their earlier furniture with later embellishments bearing their stamp. Edwards & Roberts specialised in marquetry, inlay and ormolu. Marquetry is decorative artistry where pieces of material (such as wood, pewter, or brass silver) of different colours are inserted into surface wood veneer to form intricate patterns such as scrolls or flowers. The technique of veneered marquetry had its inspiration in 16th century Florence. Marquetry elaborated upon Florentine techniques of inlaying solid marble slabs with designs formed of fitted marbles, jaspers and semi-precious stones. This work, called opere di commessi, has medieval parallels in Central Italian "Cosmati"-work of inlaid marble floors, altars and columns. The technique is known in English as pietra dura, for the "hardstones" used: onyx, jasper, cornelian, lapis lazuli and colored marbles. In Florence, the Chapel of the Medici at San Lorenzo is completely covered in a colored marble facing using this demanding jig-sawn technique. Techniques of wood marquetry were developed in Antwerp and other Flemish centers of luxury cabinet-making during the early 16th century. The craft was imported full-blown to France after the mid-seventeenth century, to create furniture of unprecedented luxury being made at the royal manufactory of the Gobelins, charged with providing furnishings to decorate Versailles and the other royal residences of Louis XIV. Early masters of French marquetry were the Fleming Pierre Golle and his son-in-law, André-Charles Boulle, who founded a dynasty of royal and Parisian cabinet-makers (ébénistes) and gave his name to a technique of marquetry employing brass with pewter in arabesque or intricately foliate designs. Etagère is a piece of light furniture which was extensively made in France during the latter part of the 18th century. It consists of a series of stages or shelves for the reception of ornaments or other small articles. Like the what-not it was very often cornerwise in shape, and the best Louis XVI examples in exotic woods are exceedingly graceful and elegant. In modern usage, an étagère is often used to refer specifically to a long-legged shelf unit that fits over a bathroom toilet...
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Located in Bedfordshire, GB
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Early 19th Century English Antique Regency Tray Tables

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Mahogany

Small Regency Mahogany Writing Table
Small Regency Mahogany Writing Table
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H 28.5 in W 26.5 in D 19 in
19th Century Mahogany Serving Tray
Located in San Francisco, CA
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Late 19th Century American Antique Regency Tray Tables

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19th Century Mahogany Serving Tray
19th Century Mahogany Serving Tray
$1,450
H 37.5 in W 39.5 in D 30 in
English Butlers Table 19th Century from South Africa
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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Regency Mahogany Writing Table
Located in Essex, MA
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19th Century Mahogany Faux Bamboo Butler Tray Table
Located in Germantown, MD
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19th Century American Antique Regency Tray Tables

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Located in Bedfordshire, GB
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Antique Regency circa 1810-1820 Mother of Pearl Inlaid Hand Painted Tray Table
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
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Regency Papier Mache Tray Table by Clay
Located in Essex, MA
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Regency tray tables for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a broad range of unique Regency tray tables for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 20th Century, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage tray tables created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include tables, decorative objects and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with wood, lacquer and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Regency tray tables made in a specific country, there are England, Europe, and United Kingdom pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original tray tables, popular names associated with this style include and Henry Clay. 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 tray tables differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $707 and tops out at $28,500 while the average work can sell for $4,177.