{"product_id":"lacouvee","title":"La Couvée","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePre-Order — ships in 6–8 weeks.\u003c\/strong\u003e This piece is made to order; your purchase confirms production.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLa Couvée — No. 05\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eDecadent Heritage · Fifth Edition\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA couvée is the clutch itself — the eggs before they open, and the parent who will not leave them. This piece takes that word literally: an egg, whole and closed, carried on a low socle, with a pair of birds settled at its crown as if they had only just finished arranging themselves there. Nothing has hatched. Nothing is meant to.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe body is worked in continuous deep relief — feather, leaf, and a single climbing rose folding around the shell the way ivy takes a garden wall. An egg is still an egg only while it holds itself closed; where L'Éclosion (No. 04) is caught in the act of opening, La Couvée is caught in the act of guarding something that has not opened at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eCast in a fine bisque-finish composite, warmer and more ivory than the collection's other whites, hand-undercut so the birds' wings and the deepest leaf edges stand nearly free of the shell beneath them — the kind of relief that only survives casting when it is finished by hand, one pass at a time, rather than pulled straight from the mould.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eIt asks for a close vantage: a low console, a mantel, anywhere a hand might rest near it before an eye reaches it. The birds are not decoration. They are doing a job. Move it, and it is easy to feel you are the one being watched.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Spring Renaissance","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48579904143581,"sku":null,"price":520.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/2581\/7053\/files\/La_couve_1.jpg?v=1789641697","url":"https:\/\/springrenaissance.store\/products\/lacouvee","provider":"Spring Renaissance","version":"1.0","type":"link"}