Decorated in enamels and gilt, the body painted with two large rectangular panels, each enclosing a different scene, one showing a spring outdoor scene with two elegantly dressed ladies and a child from a wealthy household taking a stroll in a garden beneath cherry blossoms, the other a late summer or early autumn scene with a cockerel and hen pecking for seeds in front of a flowering shrub of hechima (loofah) and nasu (aubergines), a pair of sparrows perched on trailing branches of ripe green ingenmame (beans) behind ripe stalks of tomorokoshi (corn), flowering hozuki (Chinese lantern) and susuki (pampas grass), all reserved on a cobalt-blue ground of repeat stylised foliate motifs, the flattened shoulder with crests interwoven among stylised chidori (plovers or dotterels) on waves; signed on the base in gilt Dai Nihon Kyoto Kinkozan zo.