Large Meissen figurine group "Boy with deer". Dark-haired boy in a white, knee-length shirt standing on a round profile base, leading the fawn standing to the side by the strap and feeding it with green plants. Polychrome painting with gold contouring. Designed by Johann Christian Hirt, c. 1880 - 1882, model no. M 148, unmarked; crossed swords mark. H. 37 cm. The Fürth-born sculptor Johann Christian Hirt (1836 - 1897) studied classical sculpture under Max von Widnmann at the Munich Academy from 1855. He created numerous statues and small sculptures in bronze, silver and porcelain. In the early 1880s, the Meissen manufactory acquired compositionally comparable figures such as the "Boy with Dog" (M 149) and "Girl with Goat" (M 152). Cf. Jedding, Meissener Porzellan des 19. und 20. Jhs., p. 150, Thieme-Becker, XVII, p. 144. A large porcelain figure group of a boy with fawn modelled by J. Chr. Hirt. Insignificantly restored. Crossed swords mark. Meissen. Circa 1900.