"The Studio" serving bowl 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 bowl is oblong with a deep recess and a molded "basket-weave" gilt edge. The design features Davis’s studio, located on the shore at Asbury Park, New Jersey. Doors on the side of the studio represent two of the three bath houses attached to the building. A wood deck surrounds the structure. On the outside of the studio are the subjects of his watercolor paintings for the Hayes service; a crane, racoon, rooster, and fish, as well as various kinds of flora and fauna. A beached boat is tethered to an encrusted pylon with oars in a grassy patch nearby. Faint sihlouettes of marine vessels can be seen on the horizon.