# Vietnam White Marble Crawling Makhan Chor Laddu Gopal, 12 in > Sculptor-carved Vietnam white marble Makhan Chor, a 12-inch crawling Laddu Gopal with a butter ball and an upturned pot. **Source:** https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/products/vietnam-white-marble-crawling-makhan-chor-12in **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. ## The stone Vietnam White Marble is quarried around Thanh Hoa province in northern Vietnam and has been a steady export stone into Indian carving workshops since the 2000s. Set beside Makrana it reads noticeably cooler, a clean neutral white rather than a cream-warm one, with a fine, tightly packed crystalline grain that holds small-scale detail without crumbling at the edges. That matters enormously on a 12-inch murti, where the whole appeal sits in things measured in millimetres: the bead courses of a garland, the ridge of an eyebrow, the lip of an upturned pot. Grey veining runs light in this stone, usually under a few percent of the surface and rarely heavier than a hairline. The piece is finished to a soft satin polish, which holds a gentle sheen under a mandir lamp instead of throwing back hard highlights that flatten the carving. ## The Makhan Chor form Makhan Chor, the butter thief, is the leela in which the infant Krishna raids Yashoda's butter stores, and it is the childhood episode most families keep on the shelf. He is shown mid-crawl on hands and knees, one hand lifted with a ball of butter, an ornate pot tipped over behind him. The peacock-feather crown, layered garlands, armlets and anklets are the standard shringar for the form. Proportion is what separates a Bal Gopal from a shrunken adult Krishna: a large head, soft rounded limbs, a short dhoti at the waist. One deliberate absence is worth naming: there is no flute. The bansuri belongs to the grown Venugopal, and putting it into an infant's hand collapses two very different murtis into one. ## Sizing it for a home mandir At 12 inches tall and about 11 inches across the oval plinth, this Laddu Gopal sits on a mandir shelf or a wooden chowki without crowding the puja thali, the diyas and the water pot that share the space. Weight lands near 9 kg, so a shelf already carrying a brass murti will take it; a glass or engineered-wood shelf spanning more than about two feet is worth checking before it goes up. Leave a hand's width of clear space in front, because a crawling form reads best from slightly above, which is the angle you get standing at an average home mandir. Many households dress their Laddu Gopal in a fresh poshak through the year, and the crawling posture leaves the shoulders and waist open enough for cloth without burying the carving underneath. ## Making it yours This murti is made to order, so the specification is a starting point rather than a fixed catalogue item. The same form can be scaled from a 6-inch shelf piece up to a 24-inch centrepiece, and carved in Makrana white marble, Vietnam white marble, black stone, Dholpur pink sandstone, or cast marble dust. The lotus-petal plinth can be swapped for a plain moulded base or a taller singhasan if the murti is to be dressed and seated formally. We work the design through with you, brief the sculptor who will carve it, and follow the piece all the way to your door. Message us on WhatsApp with the size and the stone you have in mind and we will come back with a quote and a timeline. ## Specifications - **Material:** Vietnam White Marble - **Finish:** Soft polish (satin) - **Colour:** Natural White - **Height:** 12 inches - **Width:** 11 inches - **Depth:** 7 inches - **Weight:** 9 kg - **Ideal for:** Home mandir, Pooja room, 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/vietnam-white-marble-crawling-makhan-chor-12in.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) - [Laddu Gopal Murtis](https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/collections/laddu-gopal-marble-murti) ## Related pieces - [Vietnam White Marble Santan Gopal on Lotus Chowki, 12 in](https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/products/vietnam-white-marble-santan-gopal-lotus-chowki-12in) - [Handcrafted Vietnam White Marble Bal Gopal (Laddu Gopal) Statue, 1ft](https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/products/vietnam-white-marble-bal-gopal-laddu-gopal-1ft) - [Vietnam White Marble Compact Laddu Gopal for Pooja Shelf, 6 in](https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/products/vietnam-white-marble-compact-laddu-gopal-6in) ## 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%20Vietnam%20White%20Marble%20Crawling%20Makhan%20Chor%20Laddu%20Gopal%2C%2012%20in.%20Product%20link%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tilakmandirwala.com%2Fproducts%2Fvietnam-white-marble-crawling-makhan-chor-12in - 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.