Just what I needed. It's a little pricey for what it is, but I needed a butter dish and the other one I had my eye on was not in stock. This butter dish is well crafted nevertheless. I have to be extra careful when my little girls are spreading butter on their toast as they can be clumsy sometimes - they are 3 and 5, but we want them to be independent, so if that means our expensive butter dish breaking, then I will get a plastic one next time :-)