Denby's quality is very high; the packaging of this set was excellent, and the plates themselves are a worthy compliment to the Imperial Blue Denby dinner plates and bowls we already have. The sculpt of the edging isn't quite as fine with this Studio Blue set as the Imperial, and the color doesn't got together near as well as I'd hoped, but they're charming and highly useful in their own right. One of the pluses of this brand is that the ceramic doesn't overheat in the microwave nearly as much as my old Emile Henri dinnerware.