The silver-bodied vase, with a separately applied silver rim and silver base plate, is decorated with a fantailed goldfish emerging though rippled water under hanging wisteria. The ground of the vase has been hammered to give a nanako effect, over which light-blue enamel has been applied. The fish and ripples have been hammered from the inside of the vase and then chased. The decoration of the fish has been carried out in a combination of tsuiki and tomei-jippo, and there are small areas of chased copper visible on parts of the fish. The wisteria is rendered in polychrome silver yusen. The whole vase has a final overall coating of clear enamel. There are two marks on the base: in Roman script the word 'SILVER' and in Japanese phonetic script the name Murase [Jinsaburo]. While Coben and Ferster state that the word 'Silver' does not appear on cloisonné enamels until after 1945, there is no doubt that this piece dates to an earlier period.