Antique pair vases in the Kutani technique. Made of porcelain. Hand-painted. These vases are examples of ceramic production from the Meiji period (1868-1912). Japan, XIX century.

Kutani is one of the three main and most famous directions of Japanese porcelain / ceramics art. The workshops are located in Ishikawa Prefecture, mainly in the Kutani region, literally translated as “nine valleys”.

Numerous workshops located near the city of Kaga worked with porcelain so skillfully that they became a household name for all Japanese porcelain. Kutani ceramics were presented at the world exhibitions in Vienna and Paris and were really of great importance for the whole world of ceramics.