The Antiquedesks.net guide to the key periods in antique furniture making, comparing British, American and French terminology
| ACCESSION DATE | BRITISH MONARCH | BRITISH PERIOD | UK FURNITURE STYLE | U.S. PERIOD | FRENCH PERIOD | PRINCIPAL WOODS |
| 1485 | Henry VII | Tudor | ||||
| 1509 | Henry VIII | Tudor | ||||
| 1547 | Edwrad VI | Tudor | ||||
| Gothic | Renaissance | |||||
| 1553 | Mary I | Tudor | (c.1100-1600) | Oak Period | ||
| (c.1500-1650) | ||||||
| 1558 | Elizabeth I | Elizabethan | Early | |||
| / Tudor | Colonial | |||||
| 1603 | James I | Jacobean | ||||
| / Stuart | ||||||
| 1625 | Charles I | Carolean | Louis XIII | |||
| / Stuart | (1610-1643) | |||||
| 1649 | Commonwealth | Cromwellian | ||||
| Baroque | ||||||
| 1660 | Charles II | Restoration | (c.1600-1700) | |||
| Walnut Period | ||||||
| 1685 | James II | Restoration | Louis XIV | (c.1670-1735) | ||
| (1643-1715) | ||||||
| 1688 | William & Mary | William & Mary | William | |||
| & Mary | ||||||
| 1694 | William III | William III | Dutch | |||
| Colonial | ||||||
| 1702 | Anne | Queen Anne | ||||
| Rococo | Queen | |||||
| 1714 | George I | Early | (c.1700-1760) | Anne | Regence | |
| Georgian | (1715-1723) | |||||
| 1727 | George II | Middle | Chippendale | Loius XV | Early Mahogany | |
| Georgian | Neoclassical | (1723-1774) | Period | |||
| 1760 | George III | Late | (c.1755-1805) | Early Federal | Louis XVI | (c.1735-1770) |
| Georgian | Empire | (c.1790-1810) | (1774-1793) | |||
| 1812 | George III / | Regency | (c.1799-1815) | American Directoire | Directoire | Late Mahogany |
| Prince Regent | Regency | (c.1798-1804) | (1793-1799) | Period | ||
| 1820 | George IV | Regency | (c.1812-1830) | American Empire | Empire | (c.1770-1850) |
| (c.1804-1815) | (1799-1815) | |||||
| 1830 | William IV | William IV | Ecclectic | Later Federal | Restauration | |
| (c.1830-1880) | (c.1810-1830) | (1815-1830) | ||||
| 1837 | Victoria | Victorian | Victorian | Louis Philippe | ||
| Arts & Crafts | (c.1837-1901) | (1830-1848) | ||||
| 1901 | Edward VII | Edwardian | (c.1880-1900) | 2nd Empire | ||
| Art Nouveau | Art Nouveau | (1848-1870) | ||||
| 1910 | George V | George V | (c.1900-1920) | (c.1900-1920) | ||
| Art Deco & | 3rd Republic | |||||
| 1936 | Edward VIII | Edward VIII | Art Moderne | (1871-1940) | ||
| (c.1925-1940) | Art Deco | |||||
| 1936 | George VI | George VI | (c.1920-1940) | |||
| Utility & Austerity | ||||||
| 1952 | Elizabeth II | Elizabeth II | Furniture | |||
| (c.1939-1955) |
