Complex sentence: Based on a Renaissance fountain, it was originally painted white and included a statuette of a boy, possibly depicting Cupid, though the figure was damaged and permanently removed from the sculpture before or during the 1940s.
Split into simpler sentences: Based on a Renaissance fountain, it was originally painted white and included a statuette of a boy, possibly depicting Cupid. However, the figure was damaged and permanently removed from the sculpture before or during the 1940s.