Can anyone tell me what this says?

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MariusM

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This is on an old teapot. I converted it to black and white to (hopefully) make it more clear, as it was gold on orange. Many thanks! Marius

 

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I'm stumped on the second, but first is 九 and last is 造. A stretch might be that the middle one is a variant of 谷, which would perhaps make it kutani yaki (very common)

 

Mikawa Ossan

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I think @johnnyG got it right. I think it says 九谷造, albeit in a slightly different form on the second character.

It took a while to find, but here is another example of it written very similarly.

https://sekiei.nichibun.ac.jp/GAI/ja/detail/?gid=GL008187&hid=2152

 

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Thank you both so much, it is appreciated! This is a wonderful site. I received some translation help here a few years back to identify some old knives that belonged to my parents. They were in Japan in the 1960's and had brought back a number of wonderous things.
Arigato gozaimasu!
Marius