The design is etched into the speckeled stoneware with a gold rim. There are a few imperfections such as the gold not all the way on the edge but all in all these are beautiful dishes.

Beautiful set and well made

Got the snowflake dishes. Beautiful and sturdy. Likes them so much I irdered a second set!

Nice heavy duty and so beautiful

These dishes are perfect! They arrived quickly and are just what I expected.

Very Nice set. I bought for a gift & they said they really like them.

Well made, beautiful pattern.

This is a decent set. Solid, heavy, dishwasher safe. Does scratch easy.

Very festive, looks good on the table set up

We ordered these online and were slightly concerned about if any would break during shipping. No worries--the packing on these was incredible. They were packed so well, it was sorta tough to get them out of the box without cutting part of it to create some space to be able to pull the pieces out (It's 3 boxes within a box within a cardboard surround, within the bigger Sam's shipping box). And they're oh so pretty. I see the pattern we ordered is already sold out. I don't know why they didn't include cups but it's fine. It's heavy and seems to be of great quality. Very happy with this purchase.