 1988 was the bicentenary of non @-@ indigenous settlement in Australia and , as such , there was renewed interest in the ' lost ' second Sydney punchbowl . The bowl eventually turned up in a catalogue for a Chinese export porcelain exhibition at Newark Museum , New Jersey , United States , titled Chinese Export Porcelain : A Loan Exhibition from New Jersey Collections . The bowl had been lent by Peter Frelinghuysen Jr . , a former United States Congressman ( in office 1953 – 1975 ) . The discovery was made by Terry Ingram , a Sydney journalist specialising in antiques and art , who wrote about it in his Saleroom column , titled Newark Museum packs Aussie punch , in The Australian Financial Review on 25 August 1988 . It transpired that in the early 1930s , the bowl was acquired by Frelinghuysen 's parents in a private negotiation with the owner at the time the National Art Collections Fund was attempting to raise interest from Sydney 's cultural institutions . This discovery drew the attention of Paul Hundley , senior curator of the Australian National Maritime Museum ( ANMM ) ' s USA Gallery , the Gallery itself a bicentennial gift of the American people to Australia . In May 2006 , the ANMM announced it had acquired the bowl as a part gift from Frelinghuysen through the American Friends of the ANMM , a charitable organisation recognised by the US Internal Revenue Service which enabled Frelinghuysen to receive appropriate taxation benefits . The Australian Financial Review reported the acquisition in its Saleroom column , titled Museum bowled over , on 18 May 2006 . The punchbowl has been on display in the Museum 's USA Gallery ever since . It also features as one of the 100 Stories from the ANMM , has digitised images in the ANMM catalogue and can be viewed on YouTube . At the time the ANMM acquired the punchbowl in 2006 , the bowl was valued at $ A330,000 . 
