"Southward Flight of Duck" 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 indicating the tips of the flower petals. The design features various shore birds off the Delaware coast, flying south in October by the light of the “hunter’s moon.”