"On the Chesapeake Bay" game platter 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 egdes were gilt. The platter is rectangular, with the corners rolled. The design features a male Canvasback duck, a species native to the Chesapeake Bay. Here, under a dark and stormy sky, the duck feeds on shallow water grasses during a downpour. A flock of other canvasbacks fly in the distance.