 The gilded monogram initials on the Library punchbowl are perhaps the only current clue as to the original commissioner of the punchbowls . The initials are difficult to decipher because of partial loss of the gilt Copperplate script . Possibilities include HCA or HA , TCA or FCA over B. Several candidates have been suggested including Henry , 3rd Earl of Bathurst , and Sir Thomas Brisbane , New South Wales Governor in 1821 – 1825 after Lachlan Macquarie , but the most likely is Henry Colden Antill ( 1779 – 1852 ) . Antill was appointed aide @-@ de @-@ camp to the fifth New South Wales Governor , Macquarie who was in office 1810 – 1821 , on his arrival in Sydney on 1 January 1810 . He was promoted to Major of Brigade in 1811 and retired from the British Army in 1821 . Antill settled on land first at Moorebank near Liverpool and then in 1825 on his estate near Picton — named Jarvisfield in honour of Macquarie 's first wife , Jane Jarvis . He was buried at Jarvisfield on 14 August 1851 . Antill had subdivided part of the estate in 1844 , making possible the founding of the town of Picton . When the State Library acquired its punchbowl in 1926 , the Antill family of Picton — Henry 's antecedents — had no knowledge of the punchbowl 's provenance . 
