Collectors, as a breed, tend not to be flamboyant. Therefore, it is difficult to map what is moving in the market, since noisy collectors are often not serious ones, or are in any case a small minority among a very large community.
Nor are collectors as eclectic as the trade often presumes. Many may buy eclectically, but at least some of it is meant for trade, or investment.
More recently, there has been a more-than-usual stirring of interest in marble statuary.
This has been a neglected area in India, since the Indian eye has been schooled in the Asian form, and is largely unappreciative of Western statues.
There has also been a snob value attached to the collecting of figurines
