Gibson Home Everyday Square 40-Piece Fine Ceramic Expanded Dinnerware Set vs Elama Gia 24 Piece Stoneware Dinnerware Set

Buy the Gibson Home 40-piece set if you need to seat eight, want mugs included, or feed a busy household where plates get knocked around. Buy the Elama Gia if you want a lighter, hand-painted stoneware look for six and don't need mugs. The Gibson gives you more pieces and a tougher everyday ceramic; the Elama gives you a distinctive blue finish and stackable stoneware that owners rate well, though it serves two fewer people and skips mugs and prep bowls.

• Choose the Gibson Home Everyday Square if you regularly host eight or more and want mugs, prep bowls and a chip-resistant white set that goes with anything.
• Choose the Elama Gia if you want hand-painted stoneware with visible character for a table of six and don't need mugs or extra bowls.