Example of Thai statuette cast in an unleaded tin bronze (11wt% Sn, 0.6wt% Pb, ICP-AES analyses) with a surface enriched in tin by depletion (~20wt% Sn, PIXE analysis). Maitreya, found in the Prasat Hin Khao Plai Bat II cache, northeast Thailand, late 7th–first half of the 9th century, H. 46 cm (Musée national des arts asiatiques – Guimet, Paris, inv. MA 3321). See Bourgarit, David, Benoît Mille, Thierry Borel, Pierre Baptiste, and Thierry Zéphir. 2003. “A Millennium of Khmer Bronze Metallurgy.” In Scientific Research in the Field of Asian Art: Proceedings of the First Forbes Symposium at the Freer Gallery of Art, edited by Paul Jett, 103–26. London: Archetype.; Mechling, Mathilde, Brice Vincent, Pierre Baptiste, and David Bourgarit. 2018. “The Indonesian Bronze-Casting Tradition: Technical Investigations on Thirty-Nine Indonesian Bronze Statues (7th–11th C.) from the Musée national des arts asiatiques – Guimet, Paris.” Bulletin de l’École française d’Extrême-Orient 104:63–139..