Vintage Japanese vase. Made of porcelain, painted and decal. There is a marking "Kutani Ryuse". Japan, the twentieth century.

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, the literal translation is "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 world exhibitions in Vienna and Paris and were really important for the whole world of ceramics.