Lanita,, That is an easy question!!!! A bowl that I have always loved passed down to me from my grandmother, it wasn't expensive ( I don't think) but it always held her special noodles,(homeade) with a tomato sauce that were wonderful, at all the family dinners. Recently, I had the house painted and I put it in my bureau among my clothes so it wouldn't get broken, leaving my china unprotected. Crazy, but I only thought of the bowl. Claudia J.Williams