| Jacobean is a term used to cover all English style | | | | named for King Charles II. In this period the furniture |
| furniture from the reign of King James I to King | | | | was influenced by Flemish Baroque design. |
| James II. However, throughout this span of time | | | | Early English Jacobean furniture was widely copied by |
| Jacobean furniture showed markedly different | | | | the colonial Americans, although the furniture was |
| influences. The earliest Jacobean furniture was | | | | more primitive, due to the fact that there were |
| influenced mainly by Elizabethan (1603 -1688) styled | | | | fewer skilled furniture makers living in America at the |
| furniture. Commonwealth Style (1649-1660) marks | | | | time. In true patriotic form, American colonists |
| the middle of the Jacobean Period, when the | | | | renamed their Jacobean reproductions to that of |
| furniture was of simpler design and undecorated. The | | | | "Early American" furniture. |
| late Jacobean Period is that of the Carolean period, | | | | |