The vase, of typical Chinese shape, comprises a copper body with applied silver rim and base plate. It is decorated in a combination of silver yusen, shosen and musen enamels with a mountainous landscape. The scene includes a temple partly hidden by a foreground of pine trees and rocks. Around the rocks and trees is a raging torrent with mountain peaks rising out of the mist in the background. The subtle decoration is in the style of a Chinese landscape painting, perhaps following the 'blue-green' tradition of artists such as Qiu Ying (1494-1552) who in turn influenced Japanese painters such as Tani (1763-1841). Buncho is known for his work in the Nanga (literally 'Southern Painting') Chinese style. The design has been executed in varying shades of blue, green and red shaded enamels on a yellow-green enamel ground. The base contains the mark of the Ando Company (in a rather loose style) in silver yusen.

The vase also reproduces a type of Chinese porcelain known in English as 'eggshell' and in Chinese as qianjiang, which became widespread during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. This vase is evidence that there was a rapid transfer of styles and influences between China and Japan at that time. It has been suggested that the vase was made by Mr Okumura, who worked for the Ando Company (private communication with Inaba Katsumi). There is a pair of vases similarly style decorated by Gonda Hirosuke in the collection of the Shosenkyo Cloisonné Museum in Kofu (Shosenkyo Ropeway Cloisonné Art Museum, pp 18/19).