Charming . Very chic. Lovely chicken siting atop the lid while his compatriots strut around the landscape below. A beautiful addition to a kitchen with an eye to the past. There is a note that this is for decorative purposes only but I can still think it can be of use in the kitchen to hold all those books of matches from random places or that pile of miscellaneous post it note pads in the office. The container is 9.5" x 7" x 7".