Régence

• Regence

From French Régence.

Régence (comparative more Régence, superlative most Régence)

1. Of or pertaining to the style of French furniture and decoration of c. 1680–1725, characteristic of the regency of Philippe II, Duke of Orléans.
   • 1930, Arts & Decoration, page 56:

     Window fittings are of soft almond green and salmon figured lampas, and Régence chairs are walnut and covered in figured velour of a soft pinkish rust color.

   • 1966, Bulletin, Victoria and Albert Museum, page 7:

     There is nothing rococo about this panelling; it is more Régence in character and it may be an 18th century example of a “make-up”.

   • 1986, Country Life, page 500:

     Despite the swept-up top, this is more Régence in feeling than Rococo, recalling the engravings of Marot and Berain.

   • 1989, Henry Adams, 1903-1916, Massachusetts Historical Society, page 19:

     Now I must find a canapé lit, very Régence and dissolute, to complete my salon.

   • 2001, Highly Important French & Continental Furniture, page 17:

     A very similar pair of wall lights, but with down-turned floral drip pans and urn-form bobèches of a more Régence nature, were with Bernard Steinitz in 2000.

   • 2007, Timothy Newbery, “France: Transition”, in Frames (The Robert Lehman Collection; XIII), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in association with Princeton University Press, Princeton, page 401:

     Yet the straight husks extending from the centers and corners are more Régence in character.

• “Régence”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “regence”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.