Are most of these French?

French casts are the biggest single group, roughly half the category, and 'french' appears in 424 titles. Figures, busts, nudes and animalier subjects such as horses, dogs and lions carry most of it. Italian and Austrian work follows, with 87 and 75 title mentions. Beyond Europe, the Japanese group is substantial in its own right.

What does Grand Tour mean on a bronze?

It means a reduction after a famous antique statue, made as a souvenir for travellers. The phrase runs through 211 titles on Sellingantiques. The subjects repeat. The Dancing Faun of Pompeii is the most-repeated single subject in the archive, with the Marly Horses after Coustou, the Venus de Milo, Diane de Gabii and the Medici Lion close behind.

Why are so many listed only as 19th century?

Because that is what the dealer entered. The vague '19th Century' bracket holds 645 listings, the largest bucket in the whole dated field, and 'Victorian' is similarly broad. Where a decade is given it usually falls between the 1860s and the 1930s, with the 1920s, 1900s and 1880s the fullest. Only 1,322 of 2,172 listings carry a clean year at all.

Is spelter sold in this category too?

Yes. Spelter and bronzed spelter appear in a small but distinct run of listings, along with plaster, terracotta and chalk figures. They sit almost entirely in the lower part of the range. Bronze-and-ivory and bronze-and-marble combinations turn up as well, the ivory ones described as chryselephantine.

How many come up each year?

Around 265 a year, and 214 different dealers have listed one. That is one of the broadest dealer bases in sculpture, so no single specialist controls what reaches the market. Singles outnumber pairs heavily. 'Pair' appears in only 218 titles.

Which Japanese pieces turn up?

Meiji-period work leads, with 'meiji' in 137 titles and 'okimono' in 81. Hawks, tigers, horses, monkeys, turtles and Buddhist figures are the recurring subjects. Articulated jizai models are far scarcer: a crab, a lobster, a hermit crab, a tarantula and a single scorpion across the entire archive. At the top of the range, large gilded okimono and samurai groups outrank the European figures.