{"product_id":"the-kore-fragment","title":"The Kore Fragment","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\u003eIn the sixth century B.C.E., Greek sculptors carved a figure they called the kore — the maiden, draped and upright, her body a study in quiet symmetry rather than spectacle. The Kore Fragment continues that lineage, isolating the torso as its own complete statement: shoulder, waist, the soft architecture of the hip, rendered without apology and without ornament. Cast first in cold resin for permanence, then hand-finished in gold leaf and allowed to oxidize unevenly at the edges, the surface catches light the way aged brass catches a low winter sun — warm in places, shadowed in others, never uniform. Set on its own weighted plinth, it does not ask to be noticed from across a room; it rewards proximity, the kind of object a hand reaches for before the eye has finished deciding why. Paired with The Kouros Fragment, its counterpart in male form, the two pieces complete an idea two and a half millennia old: that the human body, reduced to its essential mass, remains architecture enough.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Spring Renaissance","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48575001297117,"sku":null,"price":248.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/2581\/7053\/files\/Gemini_Generated_Image_ewzr9yewzr9yewzr_68d35cbf-1c05-4d24-843d-413f4f98d540.jpg?v=1789760351","url":"https:\/\/springrenaissance.store\/products\/the-kore-fragment","provider":"Spring Renaissance","version":"1.0","type":"link"}