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Style Periods & Dates Furniture Periods Reference Material Dates British Monarch British Period American Period Style 1558-1603 Elizabeth I Elizabethan Early Colonial Gothic 1603-1625 James I Jacobean Baroque (c. 1620-1700) 1625-1649 Charles I Carolean 1649-1660 Commonwealth Cromwellian 1660-1685 Charles II Restoration 1685-1688 James II Restoration 1688-1694 William & Mary William & Mary William & Mary 1694-1702 William III William III Dutch Colonial Rococo (c. 1695-1760) 1702-1714 Anne Queen Anne Queen Anne 1714-1727 George I Early Georgian 1727-1760 George II Georgian Chippendale (c. 1750) 1760-1811 George III Georgian Early Federal (c. 1790-1810) American Directoire (c. 1798-1804) American Empire (c. 1804-1815) Neo-classical (c. 1755-1805) Empire (c. 1799-1815) 1812-1820 George III Regency Later Federal (c. 1810-1830) Regency (c. 1812-1830) 1820-1830 George IV Regency 1830-1837 William IV William IV Eclectic (c. 1830-1880) Arts & Crafts (c. 1880-1900) 1837-1901 Victoria Victorian Victorian 1901-1910 Edward VII Edwardian Art Nouveau (c. 1890-1920) Art Nouveau (c. 1890-1920) 1910-1936 George V Art Deco (c. 1920-1939) Art Deco (c. 1925-1939) 1936 Edward VIII 1936-1952 George IV 1952- Elizabeth II Style Period References (list 1) Style Period References (list 2) Pictorial Examples of American Furniture Design Periods Please consider that style periods always overlap; dates are always approximate. The Mulliner chest, made c1640's (one of the earliest). Home Sweet Home museum, East Hampton, New York. 1640-1700 - Jacobean or Pilgrim furniture 1690-1725 - William and Mary furniture 1715-1760 - Queen Ann furniture 1715-1760 - Queen Ann furniture - Massachusetts - Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1715-1760 - Queen Ann furniture - New Hampshire - Portsmouth Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1730-1830 - Windsor furniture 1750-1800 - Germanic furniture 1750-1850 - Spanish colonial furniture 1755-1785 - Chippendale furniture 1755-1785 - Chippendale furniture - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1755-1785 - Chippendale furniture - Massachusetts - Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1755-1785 - Chippendale furniture - Rhode Island - Newport Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1780-1820 - Federal furniture 1715-1760 - Federal furniture - Massachusetts - Salem Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1715-1760 - Federal furniture - New York - New York Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1715-1760 - Federal furniture - Rhode Island - Newport Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1800-1840 - Neoclassical furniture - New York - New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1820-1910 - Shaker furniture 1815-1845 - Greek revival furniture - New York - New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1815-1845 - Greek revival furniture - Massachusetts - Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1840's - Gothic revival furniture 1845-1865 - Rococo revival furniture - New York - New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1850's - Elizabethan revival furniture 1850 - 1900 - Chests - North-West coast 1860's - Renaissance revival furniture 1860's - Néo-grec furniture - New York - New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1860-1875 Egyptian revival furniture 1865-1880 - Modern Gothic furniture - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1870- 1885 - Patent furniture - New York - New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1870- 1885 - Eastlake furniture 1870-1900 - Horn furniture 1870-1900 - Anglo-Japanese furniture 1875-1890 Turkish taste furniture 1875-1890 - Aesthetic movement furniture 1876-1900 - Centennial furniture 1890-1915 - Prairie school furniture 1900-1915 - Arts & Crafts furniture - New York - Woodstock Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1900-1930 - Adirondack furniture - New York - Westport 1900-1950 - Frank Lloyd Wright furniture 1920-1940 - Art Deco furniture 1925-1940 - American modern furniture 1929-1943 - Monterey furniture - California - Monterey 1950's - International style 
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