These are absolutely beautiful salad dishes. To the untrained eye they appear to be in mint condition, but I did spot two or three very very small Minute chips that are hardly even visible to the human eye. They are around the edges. I had a fourth one and I had to throw it out because it was too damaged. These seem to be very delicate pieces of China. They do look very nice though. I will package them with extreme care to make sure that no damage occurs.