Pictureframe

Lavish carving became a major component in Philadelphia furniture and interiors, as seen in the parlor of the Powel House (Fig. 6.14)—on Chippendale chairs, sofa, piecrust teatables, the grandfather clock, the pictureframe, fireplace ornamentation, and architectural decorations.

From wood to astonishing accomplishments in the intaglio of furniture and pictureframes, from cast iron to lace, from alabaster to semi-precious stones to so-called ‘Florence mosaic’, Tuscan craftsmanship based its commercial success, its true ‘Risorgenza’, on the models of the Renaissance. […] Highly successful, for example, was […] the iron pictureframe with gold and silver damascening exhibited by Luciano De Paoli of Vicenza on the same occasion; […]

There were also other occupations, including jewellers, bootmakers, tailors, gilders and pictureframe makers, printers, robe makers, booksellers, and printers.