Framed Balinese Goddess Sculpture, Hand-Carved Crocodile Wood

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-Whether placed in a meditation space, gallery wall, or sacred corner of the home, this piece invites reverence—a quiet guardian … Read more -Whether placed in a meditation space, gallery wall, or sacred corner of the home, this piece invites reverence—a quiet guardian spirit of stillness, grace, and old-world beauty.

A sacred fragment of the forest made form—this exquisitely carved Balinese wall sculpture captures the serene visage of a celestial goddess, emerging with quiet grace from a single block of likely crocodile wood (Zanthoxylum rhetsa), a rare and prized timber revered for its pale, ivory-like grain and smooth hand-carving properties.

Encased in a deep, velvet-backed shadow box and framed in brushed black wood with a gilded edge, this piece exudes the intimacy of temple art—ornate, meditative, and steeped in myth. Her gaze is cast downward in eternal calm, adorned with a radiating crown of sun-beams and floral mandalas spiraling from her elongated earlobes. Each delicate detail—spirals, scales, and cosmic ornaments—has been chiseled by hand, likely in Ubud or another spiritual center of Bali.

This is not a reproduction or cast resin piece. Through a magnifying loupe, the artisan’s hand becomes visible in every subtle cut—proof of a human devotion to wood, worship, and form.

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Dimensions: 23” H x 16” W (framed)

Material: Hand-carved crocodile wood (likely)

Origin: Bali, early 21st century

Framed under glass in custom shadow box

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