The copper body of the vase has an applied silver rim, a silver-gilt inner neck-ring and a silver base plate, the interior of which is also silver-gilt. The pale grey enamel ground is decorated with a silver yusen design of exotic butterflies. The butterflies' bodies have been skillfully delineated with different thicknesses of silver yusen and areas of shosen. The polychrome enamels of the wings have been applied in extraordinarily fine detail and there are two small 'eyes' in chakinseki on the upper butterfly. The inner base plate is silver-gilt and carries the engraved four-character mark Aichi Hayashi Ko[denji] within a circular area.