朱汤生(1941.7—2011.1)是Julian Thompson为自己起的中文名字,从字面上看港味十足,事实上也的确如此,朱汤生1973年率苏富比(SOTHEBY’S)拍卖公司进驻了香港,并在那年主槌了香港第一场中国古董的拍卖。那时的拍卖都在少数富人小范围中进行,场地局促,朱汤生站在拍卖台上,尽管头都快碰上屋顶吊灯,但英姿焕发。这一情景是我在一张老照片上看到的,这张照片载入苏富比的史册,苏富比拍卖公司以此为 Zhu Tangsheng (1941.7-2011.1) was Julian Thompson’s own Chinese name, literally a full-fledged, indeed true, Zhu Tangsheng put SOTHEBY’S auctioneer in Hong Kong in 1973 and in that year The hammer auctioned the first Chinese antiques in Hong Kong. At that time the auction was carried out in a small area of ​​a small number of rich people, the venue cramped Zhu Zhu-sheng stand on the auction stage, despite the head almost hit the roof chandelier, but full of heroism. This scene was seen on an old photograph that was loaded into the history of Sotheby’s and used by Sotheby’s