I don't know whether they were shipped damaged or whether they were damaged in transit, but 5 of the 12 ramekins I ordered arrived broken inside their plastic-wrap covers, and were useless. Some of the breaks were unusual. For example, some breaks were slices out of a side about 1/8 of an inch wide and 1/4 of an inch long. That seemed to me to indicate they were defective when shipped because there was nothing wrong with the box they were shipped in.