During the Renaissance, France was the center of precious metal handicrafts. What are the characteristics of its handicrafts?

Among the European countries north of the Alps, France is the center of precious metal technology, which is inseparable from the powerful influence and abundant capital of the French royal family. What is different from the precious metal craft in the Middle Ages here is the kind of utensils and the content of decoration. Most of the gold and silver products in the French Renaissance were tableware, candlesticks, swing parts, swords and armor, and decorations for fireplaces. Although the local imitation Gothic architecture is also very common in decoration content, it is mostly decorated with figures or animal and plant images, with historical stories and myths and legends.