The present cream jug is very closely related to an example by Bancroft Woodcock in the Garvan collection at the Yale University Art Gallery, illustrated in Buhler & Hood, American Silver in the Yale University Art Gallery, 1970, fig. 945, p. 242. Ball-and-claw feet on American silver holloware are extremely rare and, apart from those on the well-known cream jug by Samuel Casey, appear to be characteristic of Philadelphia and the mid-Atlantic colonies in its sphere.

The mark on this cream jug may be attributed to Sparrow on the basis of the similarity of the distinctive script lettering to that of his published marks, combined with the Philadelphia-influenced style of the piece itself.