Handcrafted Makrana White Marble Lakshmi-Ganesh Pair on Lotus Thrones, 30in

This Lakshmi-Ganesh pair is sculpted from Makrana white marble — the same stone the Mughal builders chose for the Taj Mahal's facades. Quarried in Makrana town (Nagaur district, Rajasthan), the calcitic block is dense, low-porosity, and carries a slightly warm neutral white that distinguishes it from cooler Italian Carrara and brighter Vietnam marble. The matched pair sits on individually carved lotus thrones, four-armed in their canonical forms, scaled at thirty inches — the temple-grade size tier that anchors a pooja-room installation. At our Jaipur workshop, both figures begin as one continuous block — the artisan rough-cuts both forms in parallel so that pose, crown elevation, and lotus throne dimensions match across the pair. Primary shaping with heavy chisels gives way to detail work: the crown ornamentation, the symmetrical attribute-bearing hands (Lakshmi's lotuses and abhaya-varada mudras; Ganesha's modaka, ankusha, pasha, and abhaya), the flowing dhoti and saree drapery, the lotus-petal layering on each throne. Face-finishing is entirely by hand — no machine-polish touches the deity features. The pair is then progressively polished through eight abrasive grades to a satin soft-polish, bringing out the marble's depth without glazing it. The Lakshmi-Ganesh pair is the canonical Diwali pooja arrangement across North India. Lakshmi, seated to Ganesha's right, holds twin lotuses with her upper hands while the lower two rest in abhaya (fearlessness) and varada (boon-granting) mudras. Ganesha, on the left, holds his traditional ankusha (elephant goad), pasha (noose), and modaka (sweetmeat), with the fourth hand in abhaya. Both deities are presented in Padmasana — the seated lotus posture — on individual carved lotus thrones, a Pala-era convention that survived into Rajasthani sculptural tradition through the Mughal period. A 30-inch pair anchors a pooja room properly — large enough to read as a central installation rather than a tabletop figurine, but contained enough to live on a standard wooden mandir platform with diya thali and incense holders flanking. North-east placement (Ishanya) is the conventional Vastu orientation for the household altar; the pair faces the practitioner during morning aarti. Allow roughly 36 inches of clear width on the platform to accommodate the lotus-throne footprint and the customary brass arati lamps. Available in Vietnam white marble, Makrana variants (Albeta, Kumari, Doongri), and select inlay-finish options on commission. Custom sizes from 12 inches to 60 inches; lead time scales with size. Message us on WhatsApp for stone samples and installation specifications.