It might also be because it's wood and on a list of banned species ?
Or it could be what I consider to be an on-going problem with 'bowls' and ebay's wonderful new way of listing that insists old / vintage / antique items are mixed into huge categories of mostly new items.
Every time I try listing a vintage glass bowl I struggle to get ebay to suggest anything other than 'Tableware > Bowls' or ' Cookware > Kitchen Bowls' and usually end up fiddling about with the title until it will show other categories. It's not very helpful if I'm trying to list a dressing table Trinket Bowl. Even when I've finally got it into what I think is the appropriate Trays & Sets > Bowls category, it sometimes never shows up in searches.
Last week-end I re-listed (again) a Hofbauer 'Byrdes' salt cellar / trinket bowl / pill box and for the first time in several months it appeared in the results of my search when I put it in 'Trinket Bowls & Pill Boxes' (whoopee). Previously I've tried it in 'Trays & Sets' and 'Decorative Tableware > Bowls' and it just disappears from the results. Which might be why it gets very few views.
In reality I think the "Byrdes" range was purely ornamental / decorative crystal. But try getting the listing page to even show such a category for consideration, to ebay's search a bowl belongs in the kitchen or on a table and seems reluctant to consider anything else.
