Crockery Butter Dishes: Be warned and don't buy an Arzberg (made in Germany) butter dish... it is too low to fit a standard block of butter. I bought mine from Myer. It's wider than most butter dishes so instead i use it to house cheese that I am raising to room temperature.

Aliash: fair enough, your opinion, but I do tend to agree with Astrid and would say that's a topic for another thread