The underside of this jug is struck with the British Patent Office Design Registry mark for 7 February 1868 (parcel 9). Although surviving examples of the pattern in silver are very uncommon, several in various types of English and Continental porcelain, both contemporaneous and later, have been recorded.

George Angell, the son of the silversmith John Charles Angell, and a great nephew of the elder Joseph Angell, sometime an outworker for Rundell, Bridge & Co, succeeded to his father's business upon the latter's death in 1850. The following year George Angell showed a selection of work at the Great Exhibition, Hyde Park, in competition with his cousin, Joseph Angell the younger. Both firms won recognition for their displays, the George exhibiting a tea tray illustrative of the purposes of the Exhibition, engraved by Donalds & Son. George Angell died in 1884 after which his business was continued until the early years of the 20th century by the silversmith George Frederick Courthope.