French influence brought about the appearance of the massive forms and more rectangular construction of the Renaissance Revival Period in America. Furniture of this period typically featured straighter lines, with arched tops, broken pediments and prominent cresting. Black walnut was the favored wood. Burl walnut panels and applied machine-carved moldings and ornament were used in place of the hand carvings of the French Renaissance models. Other important features of this period included inlaid table tops, incised lines, angular scrolls and pilasters, fancy columns, colonnettes, Pompeian style legs, roundels, portrait medallions, and bronze or porcelain mounts.