Theatrical Interest: an English porcelain circular box and cover

Theatrical Interest: an English porcelain circular box and cover, the exterior painted with a panel of flowers and another of a landscape, the interior with a portrait of John Liston as Paul Pry. The cover with two re-glued sections. c.1830, probably Derby, 11cm. (2) F. B. Gilhespy collection label. d John Liston was the leading comic actor of the first half of the 19th century. In 1825 he created his masterpiece character Paul Pry, in John Poole's farce of the same name. Pry is a man consumed with curiosity, an interfering busybody unable to mind his own business.