About the Gold Fire (GF) Foundation
The Gold Fire (GF) Foundation was established over twenty years ago with the sole aim to collect, preserve and study Chinese art and objects of antiquity that spanned over five thousand years of Chinese civilisation. The GF Collection is a unique and important collection of Chinese art that encompasses jades, bronzes, porcelains, furniture and others (lacquer, paintings, books, gold and other metallic objects). This unique Collection is one of the world largest private collection of Chinese objects of antiquity of extreme significance in terms of its historical, cultural and artistic values.
READ MOREJADE 玉器
Since the beginning of the Chinese civilisation, the Chinese people have revered jade more than anything else. The Chinese revere jade as the embodiment of virtue. The philosopher Confucius (551-479 BC) also equated the attributes of jade with virtues: its polish represented purity; its hardness, intelligence; its angles, justice; the sound it makes when struck, music; its colour, loyalty; its visible flaws, sincerity… Read More
Porcelain 瓷器
The GF Porcelain Collection is an important collection comprises of objects that span from the Tang (618 – 907), to Qing (1644 – 1911) Dynasties and the Republic era (post 1911). It consists of many different types of ceramic art that range from celadon, terracotta, colored porcelains such as monochrome, blue and white, “doucai” and “fencai” pieces. Of this, the blue and white porcelain collection is central to the whole GF Porcelain Collection… Read More
Bronze 青铜器
The GF Bronze Collection is a small but important collection of approximately thirty bronze ritual objects. Its historical importance and artistic significance more than make up for its quantity. It is comprised of bronze objects that spanned the most important period of bronze art in the Chinese cilivilsation (Pre-Qin era: Xia, Shang, Zhou, Autumn Spring and Warring States period). It is made up of bronze pieces that cover the whole range of ritual and ceremonial bronze … Read More
Furniture 家具
The GF Furniture Collection consists of mostly imperial rosewood furniture made from the three most precious and hardest of wood: zitan, huanghuali and suanzhi (紫檀, 黃花梨, 酸枝). The ancient sources of two of these hard wood (zitan and huanghuali) which were reserved for the imperial court, had been exhausted in the later part of the Qing Dynasty, while mature trees yielding the suanzhi wood, mainly used by the wealthy commoners … Read More
Others 他项
The GF Others Collection is comprised of all other objects of antiquity which do not fall under the category of jade, porcelain, bronze and furniture. The items in this category are mainly lacquer, gold and other metallic objects, paintings, books (including Qing Dynasty Qianlong era jade-tablet books), ornamental boxes, Straits Chinese (Peranakan) gold-brown furniture (wedding beds, drawer and altar sets), Buddhist and Daoist statues etc. … Read More
