# Handcrafted Black Granite Lakshmi-Ganesh Pair on Shared Lotus Base, Contemporary Minimal, 21in > Master-carved black granite Lakshmi-Ganesh pair on one shared lotus base, a 21-inch altar piece with clean contemporary planes. **Source:** https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/products/black-granite-lakshmi-ganesh-pair-shared-lotus-base-contemporary-21in **Business:** Tilak Mandirwala — made-to-order marble temples (mandirs), statues and decorative handicrafts. Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. Founded 2006. **How it works:** Each piece is carved to order by the independent master sculptors TMW works with in Jaipur's Khajane Walon Ka Rasta sculptors' market. TMW designs the piece with the customer, briefs the sculptor, and follows it through to delivery and installation. **Pricing:** request-for-quote — pieces are custom, so the site carries no list prices. **Ships:** across India; export enquiries welcome. **About the image:** a design visualisation, not a photograph of stock on hand. The piece is carved to order after the design is agreed. **Availability:** made to order. ## Temple granite, contemporary lines Black granite is the stone of the South Indian temple tradition. It is quarried in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, and has been used for Dravidian deity panels for centuries because it is dense enough to hold a razor-fine line and hard enough to keep it for generations. This pair takes that temple material and reads it through a contemporary lens: no fussy filigree, no busy canopy, just two seated forms sharing one low lotus base, cut in broad clean planes and brought to a mirror polish that turns the stone almost liquid under a single downlight. ## How the granite is worked and polished Every piece is made to order by the independent master sculptors Tilak Mandirwala has worked with in Jaipur for years. Granite is unforgiving: it takes carbide points and diamond abrasives where marble would allow a softer chisel. So the block comes down in stages: block-out, primary massing, detail carving, then a long progressive polish through successively finer grits. Faces, hands, trunk and lotus petals are finished entirely by hand; nothing about the expression is left to a machine. ## The canonical forms of Lakshmi and Ganesha Both forms stay canonical. Lakshmi is four-armed, with lotus blooms in her upper hands and abhaya and varada (reassurance and giving) in the lower two. Ganesha holds his modak, his trunk curls to his left in the auspicious turn, and his mouse vahana sits at the base beside him. Worshipping the two together is a household convention across India and the fixed centrepiece of Diwali and Lakshmi Puja: Ganesha to clear the obstacle, Lakshmi for what follows it. Seating them on one shared lotus base rather than two separate thrones is the deliberate departure here, and it is what gives the piece its modern silhouette. ## Placing the 21-inch pair At 21 inches the pair suits a built-in altar niche, an entryway console, or a shelf in a modern pooja corner where black stone can play against pale plaster or microcement. Give it a plain wall, since a mirror finish is at its best with nothing behind it to reflect. A north-east facing placement is the usual choice for a home altar, and one warm point light from above will do more for the carving than any amount of ambient lighting. ## Other sizes, stones and a honed finish Sizes from tabletop to floor-standing can be cut to order, and the same composition can be made in Makrana or Vietnam white marble if you want the pair to read light instead of dark. A honed matte finish is available if the mirror polish feels too reflective for your room. Send us your niche dimensions on WhatsApp and we will work back from there. ## Specifications - **Material:** Black Granite - **Finish:** Mirror polish - **Colour:** Jet Black - **Height:** 21 inches - **Width:** 15 inches - **Depth:** 8 inches - **Weight:** 25 kg - **Ideal for:** Contemporary home interior, Modern apartment altar, Designer gifting Stone, size and finish are all changeable — these are the specifications of the piece as shown. ## Media ### Images (1) - https://vptrobfqdvauunfvodxw.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/tmw-media-assets/Statue%20product%20images/black-granite-lakshmi-ganesh-pair-shared-lotus-base-contemporary-21in.webp (primary, concept render) All media is public and CORS-open — fetch directly, no signing or proxy needed. ## Part of - [Statues](https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/collections/custom-marble-statues) - [Lakshmi-Ganesh](https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/collections/lakshmi-ganesh-pair) ## Related pieces - [Handcrafted Black Granite Lakshmi-Ganesh Pair on Lotus Pedestals, South Indian Style, 15in](https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/products/black-granite-lakshmi-ganesh-pair-south-indian-lotus-pedestals-15in) - [Black Marble Lakshmi Ganesh Pair with Gold Leaf Ornaments, 12 in](https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/products/black-marble-lakshmi-ganesh-pair-gold-leaf-12in) - [Handcrafted Makrana White Marble Lakshmi-Ganesh Pair on Shared Lotus Base, Compact 8in](https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/products/makrana-white-marble-lakshmi-ganesh-pair-shared-lotus-base-8in) ## Enquire about this piece - WhatsApp, message pre-written: https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=919766532408&text=Hi!%20I'd%20like%20a%20quote%20to%20have%20this%20design%20made%3A%20Handcrafted%20Black%20Granite%20Lakshmi-Ganesh%20Pair%20on%20Shared%20Lotus%20Base%2C%20Contemporary%20Minimal%2C%2021in.%20Product%20link%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tilakmandirwala.com%2Fproducts%2Fblack-granite-lakshmi-ganesh-pair-shared-lotus-base-contemporary-21in - Tell us the size, the stone and where it is going. We will send you a quote and a timeline. ## Contact Tilak Mandirwala - Email: info@tilakmandirwala.com - Phone: +91 92141 72150 - WhatsApp: https://wa.me/919766532408 - Enquiry form: https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/contact - Store: Jaipur, Rajasthan, India — https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/best-mandir-shop-jaipur Enquiries are quoted per piece: share the deity or object, an approximate height, and the stone you have in mind.