The cup is nice, I expected to be bigger, at least that was the impression from the pictures. And I would have liked the stand to be luscious like the cup, it is matte and not smooth. But what really really bothered me was the fact that it comes in a box with a seal and to see if the cup is not broken you have to cut the seal and you can not gift it in the same box anymore. More so, you don’t get a paper or a booklet with the story behind it, a description of it and if you buy it as a gift thing...