"Sheep's Head" 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, in a pallet of yellows and browns, features a Sheep's Head fish in the vicinity of a barnacle-covered palmetto log. Numerous small fish await the fragments which they may obtain when it crushes the shellfish. A spray of seaweed falls from the decorated shell to the shell beneath.