The quality of these dishes is poor, and I suspect the fault lies with the manufacturer. The rims of some of the plates are flawed; it looks like the glass coating melted along one side on some of them and the pattern doesn't follow over the edge on others. I bought them online because when I went to the store to purchase them there were cups missing from a shrink-wrapped box, something that no doubt happened at the manufacturer's. The pattern is pretty but for the price I would have expected better.