"Smelt" fish 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 round with rippled and scalloped edges, and the lower half of the plate is molded in the shape of an open half scallop shell. The upper design, painted in the wintery hues of blue and gray, with pops of red, features two freshly-caught smelt on an icy river bed with holly.