"Locust" dessert or fruit plate is a design from the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Porcelain Service. Porcelain with enamels and gilt decoration. The colors were applied using chromolithographic and decalcomania processes. Afterwards, decorators painted the plate with enamel colors to add shading and to enhance the design. Finally, the edges were gilt. The plate is leaf-shaped and the design features bees and June-bugs on a branch of blooming wisteria with a bright blue sky and wispy clouds as a backdrop. The springtime scene is shown in a river valley with an apple orchard, also in full bloom, on the opposite bank.