I originally ordered it because I needed a sugar bowl. Due to a current news report that scared the crap out of me, I decided to stop using my pink & blue packets of artificial sweeteners. Ergo the sugar bowl. Until I opened the box. Well, it was too gorgeous, so I switched it with my large barely tinted bowl on my coffee table. Now the afternoon sunlight hits it, & my big boring bowl has employment next to my coffeemaker!