Vintage classic Japanese vase from Kutani workshops, marked. Japan, twentieth century. Porcelain in the technique of crackle, underglaze and overglaze painting. Kutani is one of the three main and most famous trends in Japanese artistic porcelain/ceramics. 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 so skillfully with porcelain 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 to the whole world of ceramics.