Jean & Jacques ADNET (1900 - 1995 ; 1900 - 1984) The Pigeon Takes Flight Creamy white glazed earthenware proof (small chips and cracks), signed. H. 47 cm AM Crack and accident Historical background: - The Adnet brothers' pigeon models were first exhibited at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris in 1925 in the Madame's room of the Pavillon de La Maîtrise. Bibliography : - La Maîtrise commercial catalogue - Galeries Lafayette, Paris, circa 1925, model referenced under no. 114-445 and reproduced on p. 3. -Alain-René Hardy & Gaëlle Millet, Jacques Adnet, Les Éditions de l'Amateur, Paris, 2009, similar model reproduced on p. 33.