Bronze
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 objects that include tripod vessels (鼎, ding), wine container, water container (盘, pan), ceremonial sword, musical instrument (war drum) etc. The most significant bronze objects in the Collection is a beautiful Warring State era ceremonial sword with inlaid gold scripts and patterns and one of the largest known Shang Dynasty tripod or ding (height 93 cm). In addition, the Collection also boosts a rarely found complete set of five ritual tripod (ding) vessels from the Warring States period. Interestingly, the breadth of the GF Jade Collection also features some Shang and Zhou ritual objects typically made of bronze. These jade objects showcased in this section include a very special dragon-handle water-pouring vessel (匜, yi) and a tripod (鼎, ding), typical of the Warring States era bronze objects. In addition, a rosewood couplet commissioned by the Qianlong emperor with four jade carvings representing his four treasured early dynasty bronze objects is also shown in this section.
中国古代青铜器的使用出现于四千年前直到秦汉时代，以商周器物最为精美。青铜器在两千多年前于秦后逐渐由铁器所取代。无疑的是就铜器的使用规模、铸造工艺、造型艺术及品种而言，世界上没有一个地方的铜器可以与中国古代铜器相比拟。早期商周时代，青铜礼器是奴隶主贵族用于祭祀、宴飨、朝聘、征伐及丧葬等礼仪活动的用器，用以代表使用者的身份等级和权力，是立国传家的宝器。商中期时，青铜器品种已很丰富，并出现了铭文和精细的花纹。商晚期至西周早期，是青铜器发展的鼎盛时期，器型多种多样，浑厚凝重，铭文逐渐加长，花纹繁缛富丽。随后，青铜器胎体开始变薄，纹饰逐渐简化。春秋晚期至战国，由于铁器的推广使用，铜制工具越来越少。秦汉以后，随着陶器和漆器进入日常生活，铜制容器品种减少，装饰简单，多为素面，胎体也更为轻薄。儘管如此, 在中华文化五千年历史上，中国青铜器发展的高超技术与文化及其制作精美，在世界青铜器中享有独一无二的声誉和艺术价值。
金火藏青铜器收藏也有收藏了一組非常獨持，精美及从未発表过的前秦青铜器，也是青銅器最高峰时代的产品。這些作礼仪用途的商、周、春秋及战国时代的青銅器大多带有鉻文，这是极为罕见和珍贵的。這些青銅器在於硏究前秦文化历史方面是難得的珍貴资源。这组商周及先秦青铜器包括鼎，容酒器，盘，礼仪剑，乐器（战鼓）等。收藏中最重要的青铜器物是一个战国錯金的衘制帝王宝剑，一組五件套战国楚鼎，和世上最大的商鼎之一（高度九十三厘米）。此外有趣的是，金火藏玉器收藏也收藏了几件罕见及未曽発表过的以玉仿典型的青銅鼎及酒容器。这些以玉仿銅的玉雕器是商周最罕有及珍貴的礼仪器物。此外，本节还展示了一件非常珍貴的乾隆皇帝所衘制的一对黃花䔧木板，其中嵌有四幅仿商周青銅器的玉雕。
