Antique Periods

Arranged by Style

Listed below are many, but certainly not all, of the antique furniture styles arranged by style.  Where a style had only regional influence, or crossed boundaries with time coincidence, it's marked with an asterisk (*) as to its area of influence.  Otherwise, where style crossed geographic boundaries and dates don't coincide, dates are given for most of the timeframes of influence.

Style Dates / Circa American British German French
Adam Style 1760 - 1790   *    
Art Deco 1920 - 1930 1927 - 1930     1920 - 1930
Art Nouveau 1900 - 1920       *
Arts & Crafts 1880 - 1925 1880 - 1910     1910 - 1925
Baroque 1620 - 1700     1700 - 1730  
Biedermeir 1815 - 1848     *  
Carolean 1660 - 1690   *    
Chippendale 1745 - 1790 1755 - 1790 1745 - 1770    
Colonial, Dutch 1694 - 1702 *      
Colonial, Early 1600 - 1690 *      
Commonwealth 1649 - 1660   *    
Cottage Style 1860 - 1880        
Cromwellian 1649 - 1660   *    
Directoire 1793 - 1815 1798-1804     1793-1799
Duncan Phyfe 1800 - 1850 *      
Eclectic Style 1830 - 1880       *
Edwardian 1901 - 1910 *      
Elizabethan 1558 - 1603 *      
Empire Style (1st) 1799 - 1820 1804 - 1840   1800 - 1815 1799 - 1820
Empire Style (2nd) 1848 - 1870       *
Federal (Early) 1780 - 1810 *      
Federal (Late) 1810 - 1830 *      
Federal Period 1780 - 1830 *      
Frontier 1700 - 1850 *      
Georgian (Early) 1714 - 1730   *    
Georgian (Late) 1760 - 1810   *    
Georgian (Mid) 1730 - 1760   *    
Georgian Period 1714 - 1810   *    
Gothic Style 1550 - 1620        
Hepplewhite 1770 - 1810 1785 - 1810 1770 - 1790    
Hitchcock 1820 - 1840 *      
Jacobean 1603 - 1690   *    
Jacobean (Early) 1603 - 1625   *    
Jacobean (Late) 1660 - 1690   *    
Jacobean (Mid) 1625 - 1660   *    
Jugendstil c. 1880 - 1920     1880 - 1920  
Louis Phillippe 1830 - 1848       *
Louis XIII 1610 - 1643       *
Louis XIV 1643 - 1715       *
Louis XV 1723 - 1774       *
Louis XVI 1774 - 1793       *
Mahogany Age 1730 - 1860 *      
Mission Style 1890 - 1810 *      
Neo-Classicism 1755 - 1805     1760 - 1800  
Oak Age 1540 - 1820 *      
Pennsylvania Dutch 1670 - 1820 *      
Pennsylvania German 1720 - 1850 *      
Pilgrim Century 1600 - 1690 *      
Primitive 1650 - 1850 *      
Puritan 1645 - 1670 *      
Queen Anne 1702 - 1750 1725 - 1750 1702 - 1720    
Regence 1715 - 1723       *
Regency (Late) 1830 - 1837       *
Regency Period 1810 - 1837   1810 - 1830    
Renaissance 1550 - 1650     1550 - 1650 1550 - 1610
Renaissance/Baroque 1650 - 1700       *
Republic (3rd) 1870 - 1940       *
Restoration, French 1815 - 1830       *
Restoration 1660 - 1689     *  
Revival (1st Gothic) 1750 - 1765       *
Revival (2nd Gothic) 1830 - 1860       *
Revival (Classic) 1727 - 1760       *
Revival, German 1830 - 1880     *  
Revival, Greek 1790 - 1830     *  
Rococo 1695 - 1760     1730 - 1760  
Shaker 1775 - 1870 *      
Sheraton 1790 - 1820 1795 - 1820 1790 - 1810    
Stuart (Early) 1603 - 1649   *    
Stuart (Late) 1660 - 1690   *    
Tudor (Early) 1500 - 1560   *    
Tudor (Late) 1560 - 1600   *    
Victorian 1837 - 1901        
Victorian (Early) 1830 - 1860 * *    
Victorian (Late) 1880 - 1901 * *    
Victorian (Mid) 1860 - 1880 * *    
Victorian Gothic 1830 - 1880 * * *  
Victorian Renaissance 1850 - 1870 * * *  
Victorian Rococo 1840 - 1860 * * *  
Walnut Age 1660 - 1735 *      
William & Mary 1689 - 1725 1700 - 1725 1689 - 1710    
William III 1694 - 1702   *    


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