# Makrana White Marble Lalbaugcha Raja in Traditional Polychrome, 30 in > Hand-carved Makrana marble Lalbaugcha Raja on a lion-flanked simhasan, a 30-inch mandap centrepiece hand-painted in pandal polychrome. **Source:** https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/products/makrana-white-marble-lalbaugcha-raja-polychrome-30in **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. ## Makrana marble under traditional temple polychrome The Lalbaug pandal look comes home in this 30-inch Ganpati, carved in Makrana white marble from Nagaur district in Rajasthan, from the same quarries worked for centuries and used for the Taj Mahal. Rather than leaving the stone bare, the murti is finished in traditional polychrome temple paint: a saffron-orange dhoti with red and gold borders, gold-and-ruby ornament work, and a warm devotional skin tone. This is the palette Mumbai's Lalbaugcha Raja is recognised by. The lion-flanked simhasan throne, its scrolled backrest and the carved plinth beneath stay bare polished marble, so the white stone frames the colour instead of competing with it. ## How it is made, and the markers it keeps Work begins with a single Makrana block, rough-cut to the seated proportions before the sculptor opens up the four arms, the potbelly and the lion heads at the throne arms. Face, palms, trunk and drapery folds are finished entirely by hand with chisel, rasp and hand-held polishing rotators, never machine finishing. Painting is a separate stage: the marble is sealed, colour laid in thin layers by a temple painter, and gold detailing applied last over the mukut, the jewelled belt and the necklace tiers. TMW works with independent master sculptors and painters in and around Jaipur, and the two crafts are sequenced so paint never fills a carved line. Every marker of the Lalbaug form is held to: exactly four arms, the trunk curled toward the left, a single broken right tusk, a modak in the lower left hand and the right hand raised in abhaya, the gesture of blessing. The mushak sits alert at the foot of the throne. The lions on the simhasan are what separate this form from the Pune Dagdusheth murti. In Lalbaug's own pandal they read as guardians of the seat, and the epithet devotees use, Navasacha Ganpati, belongs to this seated, receiving posture. ## Scaling a 30-inch murti for sthapana At 30 inches the murti works as a sthapana centrepiece rather than a shelf piece. It wants a mandap platform around three feet wide, with roughly a foot of clear height above the mukut so the crown is not visually cropped. Painted surfaces prefer indirect light: warm lamps or diyas set to the side rather than a spot directly overhead, which flattens the gold. Marble weight is an advantage through Ganesh Chaturthi: the piece stays put through aarti and visitor traffic, and unlike a seasonal shadu murti it returns to the shrine each year. ## Other sizes and paint schemes for this Lalbaugcha Raja Sizes from 12 to 48 inches carve to the same proportions, and the paint scheme can go either way: fuller polychrome with the throne detailed too, or a restrained version with only the dhoti and ornaments coloured. Message us on WhatsApp with your mandap dimensions and we will match the scale and the palette. ## Specifications - **Material:** Makrana White Marble - **Finish:** Hand-painted (polychrome) - **Colour:** Traditional Polychrome - **Height:** 30 inches - **Width:** 15 inches - **Depth:** 14 inches - **Weight:** 70 kg - **Ideal for:** Ganesh Chaturthi sthapana, Maharashtrian home mandap, Family shrine centrepiece 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/makrana-white-marble-lalbaugcha-raja-polychrome-30in.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) ## Related pieces - [Makrana White Marble Lalbaugcha Raja Ganpati on Lion Throne, 18 in](https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/products/makrana-white-marble-lalbaugcha-raja-lion-throne-18in) - [Makrana White Marble Moreshwar Ganpati with Cobra-Hood Prabhavali and Riddhi-Siddhi, 24 in](https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/products/makrana-white-marble-moreshwar-ganpati-prabhavali-riddhi-siddhi-24in) - [Makrana White Marble Lalbaugcha Raja on Grand Lion Throne with Prabhavali, 4 ft](https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/products/makrana-white-marble-lalbaugcha-raja-grand-lion-throne-prabhavali-4ft) ## 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%20Makrana%20White%20Marble%20Lalbaugcha%20Raja%20in%20Traditional%20Polychrome%2C%2030%20in.%20Product%20link%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tilakmandirwala.com%2Fproducts%2Fmakrana-white-marble-lalbaugcha-raja-polychrome-30in - 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.