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The service consisted of 70 pieces, including 48 plates, at a total cost of 3000 francs. See Camille Leprince, Napoléon Ier & la Manufacture de Sèvres (2016), no. 17.
The painter Pierre Massy (1779-1802) is listed in David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century (2005, revised edition of 2015), vol. I, p. 60, where the author notes that Massy was mainly active as a painter of flowers and birds.