Antique Furniture Styles

Finding antique furniture styles can be really confusing.

So I have put together a simple timeline for you which you will find further down the page.

Below you can choose a period that interests you, e.g. Queen Anne, the links are in blue - click on them and you will be presented with pictures of the style.

It will take me a while to correlate all this information so please be patient with me until I can put the links in.

Furniture Periods and Styles

Dates	U.K. Period	French Period	German Period	Style
1558-1603	Elizabethian	Renaissance	Renaissance (to c1650)	Gothic
1603-1625	Jacobean
1625-1649	Carolean	Louis XIII (1610-1643)		Baroque (c1620-1700)
1649-1660	Cromwellian	Louis XIV (1643-1715)	Renaissance/ Baroque (c1650-1700)
1660-1685	Restoration
1685-1689	Restoration
1689-1694	William & Mary
1694-1702	William III			Rococo (c1695-1760)
1702-1714	Queen Anne		Baroque (c1700-1730)
1714-1727	Early Georgian	Régence (1715-1723)
1727-1760	Early Georgian Chippendale	Louis XV (1723-1774)	Rococo (c1730-1760)
1760-1811	Late Georgian	Louis XVI (1774-1793) Directoire (1793-1799) Empire (1799-1815)	Neoclassicism (c1760-1800) Zopf (1770-1799) Empire (c1800-1815)	Neoclassical (c1755-1805) Empire (c1799-1815)
1812-1820	Regency	Restauration (1815-1830)	Biedermeier (c1815-1848)	Regency (c1812-1830)
1820-1830	Regency
1830-1837	William IV	Louis Philippe (1830-1848) 2nd Empire (1848-1870) 3rd Republic (1871-1940)	Revival (c1830-1880) Jugendstil (c1880-1920)	Eclectic (c1830-1880) Arts & Ceafts (1880-1900)
1837-1901	Victorian
1901-1910	Edwardian			Art Noveau (c1900-1920)

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