Blackwork Designs with Flowers, Plate 6 from a Series of Blackwork Ornaments combined with Figures, Birds, Animals and Flowers after 1622 Meinert Gelijs Plate 6 from a print series consisting of a title page (missing) and seven numbered plates displaying motifs for the application in goldsmith's work, executed in blackwork, combined with figures and other motifs borrowed from other print series, executed in engraving. This plate contains five distinct motifs in blackwork, with a large design in the center of the plate and two smaller designs on either side. The central motif represents the decoration of a knife hilt, the four smaller motifs are decorations for a lock plate with a keyhole at center. Surrounding the blackwork motifs are engraved figures of flowers and leafs taken from a botanical source. Due to the similarity in their production techniques, blackwork prints often relate to precious objects decorated with champlevé enamel work. However, on the title page of his second ser