"Okra" soup 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 shape of the soup plate was modeled after the shape of a mountain laurel, with slight points indicated the tips of the flower petals. The design features a hen stalking a butterfly that has landed upon an okra plant, its pods ready for picking.