"Snow Shoe" ice cream 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 a rectangular form with curled gilt corners. The design features a gilded Canadian snow shoe on top of, and extending beyond a plank of reddish-brown tree bark with darker vertical striations. Designed for realism, as ice cream melted on the place the snow shoe would appear as if covered with snow.