This creamer belonged to Joanna DePeyster Kuypers Van Zandt, the grandmother of the donor.

This handsome sugar bowl marries the double-bellied form popular during the Rococo period with Neoclassical embellishments, such as beaded borders and a leafy pineapple finial. It was made by Joseph Anthony, Jr. in Philadelphia, where silversmiths excelled at creating tea wares in this style. The bowl, which descended in the Schuyler family of New York, may have been a wedding gift for John Bradstreet Schuyler (1765-1795) and his wife, Elizabeth Van Rensselaer (1768-1841). A Philadelphia-made object seems an unlikely gift for a couple with such deep roots in the Hudson Valley; however, it is possible that a friend or family member purchased the bowl while visiting the city. Either John Lansing, Jr. or Alexander Hamilton, both guests at the wedding, could have purchased the bowl while in attendance at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia just four months earlier.

This understated tea set, with its spare teapot, sugar urn, and helmet-shaped milk pot, is typical of many American Neoclassical tea sets of the 1790s to 1810s, the body of the teapot and its domed cover were constructed from rolled silver. Although its companion pieces have raised bodies, they are supported by pedestal feet and plinth-like stands assembled from sheet silver. The cipher "J M A H" identifies the original owners of the tea set, John A. Hardenbrook (1761-1832) and Mary Aymar (1763-1838), who married in 1787. The inclusion of each of the couple's initials suggests that the tea set may have been a gift to commemorate their marriage. Hardenbrook was a prominent New York broker and one of the twenty-four signatories of the 1792 Buttonwood Agreement, which led to the establishment of the New York Stock Exchange.