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For your consideration are these 12 beautifully hand-painted “SANTA BARBARA CERAMIC DESIGN” 4-Piece Dinner Place Settings. Each of the place settings features an original flower design created by the individual artists.

Vintage SBCD items, such as these, are considered highly collectible and are currently traded on platforms like Etsy and eBay, often appearing as "estate fresh" art pottery._

The Dinner plates measure (10 1/2" Diameter), Salad plates (8 1/4" Diameter), Soup bowls (8" Diameter) and Coffee Cups (5" Height).

Santa Barbara Ceramic Design (SBCD) was a Californian studio founded by Ray Markow and prominent from the late 1970s to the late 1980s. The company was notable for producing highly collectible hand-painted, functional, and decorative dinnerware, pottery, including vases, mugs, plates, and bowls and are known for their nature-inspired motifs.

Item specifics

Country of Origin: United States

Pattern: Each place setting has a different flower-inspired motif.

Number of Place Settings: 12

Year Manufactured: 1981

Material: Ceramic

Set Includes: Bowl, Cup, Dinner Plate, Salad Plate

Brand: SANTA BARBARA CERAMIC DESIGN or “SBCD”

Type: Dinner Set

Production Technique: Pottery

Handmade: Yes

Hand Painted: Yes

Item Description & Condition of Each 4-Piece Dinner Place Setting:

All pieces of the dinnerware are marked on the underside as "SBCD" (SANTA BARBARA CERAMIC DESIGN), with the artist cipher* and the year (1981). You can identify each place setting by enlarging the photo to see its corresponding number, (i.e. #1, #2, etc.) Photo of the table with all place settings

#1 SBCD Mary Favero 1981 - All four pieces are in like new condition with no chips, cracks or restorations.

#2 SBCD Suzanne Tarmey 11-81 (or Nov. 1981) - All four pieces are in like new condition with no chips, cracks or restorations.

#3 SBCD Mary Favero 1981 - All four pieces are in like new condition with no chips, cracks or restorations.

#4 SBCD Dorie Knight 10/81 - Small chip on the underside of the bowl’s lip. Only a tiny part of it is visible on the top.

#5 SBCD Margaret Gilson 1981 - All four pieces are in like new condition with no chips, cracks or restorations.

#6 SBCD Laurie Cosca 1981 - All four pieces are in like new condition with no chips, cracks or restorations, except for a small chip on the underside ring the bowl rests on.

#7 SBCD Shannon Sargent 10/81 - All four pieces are in like new condition with no chips, cracks or restorations.

#8 SBCD L.E. Cosca…Large Plate/Bowl/Cup 1981 SBCD Laurie Linn…Salad plate 10/81 - All four pieces are in like new condition with no chips, cracks or restorations.

#9 SBCD Laurie Linn 1981 - Missing cup. The remaining three pieces are in like new condition with no chips, cracks or restorations, except for a small chip on the underside ring the large plate rests on.

#10 SBCD Dorie Knight 10/81 - Missing cup The remaining three pieces are in like new condition with no chips, cracks or restorations.

#11 SBCD Anne Collinson 10-81 - Missing cup The remaining three pieces are in like new condition with no chips, cracks or restorations.

#12 SBCD Margaret Gilson 1981 - Missing large plate The remaining three pieces are in like new condition with no chips, cracks or restorations.

The last photo shows how each piece of dinnerware was carefully wrapped & securely stored.

*Artist Cipher available for each of the above artists upon request.