The vase has a high, straight neck with the rim unglazed; interior is glazed white; the exterior is decorated with figural scenes enclosed within two leaf-shaped reserves and two small peach-shaped reserves, and with arrangements of objects also within peach-shaped reserves, against a deep cobalt ground. The ground displays an overall, even mottling or slight variation of color. One figural scene shows an old man - a scholar - with a long beard, moustache and hair holding a chrysanthemum. He stands beside a man holding a knarled wood staff. A young boy is standing beside him, holding a basket and a thin staff to drive two white geese to the edge of a lotus pond or river. In the background, there is a balustrade at the right, a tree and large rocks at the left. There are two red bats in the sky above the old man. The scene is executed in delicate overglaze enamels of green, pink, white, blue-green, black, red, brown, pale yellow and blue on a pale green ground. The other figural scene, painted in the same delicate overglaze enamel palette, shows a boy offering refreshments to a scholar who stands beside an officer who wears an "eared" hat. The scholar holds a long knarled wood staff. There are two potted chrysanthemums and a tea or wine pot on a tree stump at the right, and a tree and rock at the left. The upper peach-shaped reserves contain a scene of two boys on either side of a basin, a rock and small tree in the background; and the lower contain an arrangement of a ruyi scepter, bound stack of books, vase of peonies, vase of buds, a dish garden and two round fruits.