George Jackson (1766–1840) was a British plasterwork innovator and founded George Jackson & Sons Ltd in 1780, operating from Rathbone Place, near Oxford Circus in London. Jacksons employed picture and looking glass frame makers, carvers, architectural ornament makers and modellers and became known for its production of fine ornaments for frames and architectural fittings in carton pierre and papier maché. In addition, Jacksons produced reverse cut hardwood timber moulds and pressed out a new material they had brought to Britain called Composition. “Compo”, as it is colloquially known, is a putty-like substance introduced to enable the production of enrichments without using the then long established method of wood carvings. They received their first Royal Warrant from George IV in 1826. The business exhibited at the Great Exhibition (1851), Paris Exhibition (1855, 1867, 1879) and the London International Exhibition (1862).

This object is part of a collection of reverse-carved boxwood moulds and related objects with a provenance to George Jackson given to the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1989 by Clark & Fenn Ltd. George Jackson Ltd, is now based in Sutton, Surrey, under new ownership and producing architectural ornaments.