Antique Periods

Arranged by Date

Listed below are many, but certainly not all, of the antique furniture styles arranged by date.  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 time frames of influence.

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

Resources

Mattox, Wayne.  "Guide to Western Furniture Styles.", and linked articles.  Antique Talk.  2006. 
< http://www.antiquetalk.com/column630.htm>.  (23 Apr. 2006).

"Periods & Styles.", and linked articles.  Antique Centre Worldwide.  2006. 
< http://www.antiquecentreworldwide.com/periodtable.html>.  (21 Apr. 2006).

"Periods & Styles.", and linked articles.  CyberAttic.  2004. 
< http://www.cyberattic.com/ref/periods.html>.  (16 Apr. 2006).