An Italian Grand Tour carved Giallo Antico marble model of the Barcaccia fountain 19th century

With scattered small chips and abrasions to marble. Scattered restored breaks at extremitites. Light surface dirt. In good condition.
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In the form of a Roman liburnia, the small river boats used throughout the Empire, on the Nile, Rhine and the Tiber.
At the base of Piazza di Spagna in Rome is the early Baroque fountain called Fontana della Barcaccia ("Fountain of the Old Boat"), built in 1627-29 and often credited to Pietro Bernini and his son Gian Lorenzo Bernini. 
The elder Bernini had been the Pope's architect for the Acqua Vergine fountains, since 1623. According to a legend, Pope Urban VIII had the fountain installed after a boat had been left behind in the Piazza by an invasive flood of the Tiber river.