Even teapots in colonial homes advertised the people's protest of the hated Stamp Act. The items on the table represent typical equipment for making tea at the time the Stamp Act took effect; a glass sugarbowl, an imported teabowl and saucer from Turkey, an English imported teapot, sugar cutters used to break pieces from the imported conical sugar loaf which was originally wrapped in paper. Once the chunks were broken from the loaf, they could be ground into crystals and stored in the sugarbowl.