Unusual Porcelain Covered Container featuring Pierrot and two dogs

Large ( 8 ½”,21cm tall; 7 ½”, 19cm wide across base ), and heavy porcelain covered box with charming subject matter of a Pierrot ( albeit a very young one ), seated on the edge while of the lid of the box but with most of his body overhanging the edge of the lid, while two accompanying dogs play with him. Each also wears the “Pierrot-style “ ruffled collar, one seated along side of the boy on box lid, the other applied to the side of the base as if he were jumping upward. In the boy’s right hand there is a round object much like that found on his costume yet appears to be a ball which the lower dog may be attempting to “catch “. There are no marks found anywhere on the object but style is not typically German, more likely German, Italian, or Eastern European. Although no identifying marks, and although most likely not Lenci, it does have a few of the characteristics of Lenci porcelain and pottery products rendered in the 1920s and 30s’. Inside the boy’s dangling right leg there is an irregularity and a slight bit of open space not visible from the front nor when box pieces in place and fully aligned. A most appealing piece transmitting innocence and frivolity!