Sixteen pieces, four place settings, one box, and the holiday table is settled. The Old St. Nick Assorted Sixteen-Piece Place Setting includes four assorted dinner plates, four salad plates, four cereal bowls, and four mugs, enough to seat four people through every course and the coffee afterward. Every piece is hand painted on terra bianca in Tuscany, each showing Babbo Natale differently, drawn from the stories maestro artisan Alessandro Taddei's mother read to him about Italy's Santa Claus. Because the whole setting is dishwasher and microwave safe, it handles Christmas dinner and the ordinary breakfasts in between. Buying the setting rather than piece by piece is also the simplest way to give someone the Old St. Nick table at once.