[UK] Portable? YES but unhelpful I expect. Not my first unhelpful answer, either.

...however you wish to interpret that.

[Tuj] One in every home? NO

[Tuj] Out of doors? YES audience applause
[Irouléguy] Europe to something? YES indeed
[Projoy] Showing its mettle? YES more audience applause
Well done all three.

[Pj] NOT street furniture.
[Irg] NOT used in sport
[Lib] Red? NOT AS SUCH.

[CdM] Sculpted? YES audience goes wild. I still maintain that it is not ars gratia artis as such.

(particularly since you claim it is not beautiful)

[CdM] Purpose? YES it does indeed. (particularly since I think it's just a gimmicky piece of tat)

[UK] Painted? NO

[INJ] British? NO, foreign, I'm afraid.
[UK] NO. raucous audience laughter

[UK] Info? NO.

[IS,P] Ah! I just though I was being spectacularly wrong!

... INJ asked that forty minutes ago. NO still.

OK - NOW I'm blushing!

[UK] Italian? NEANCHE.

(although I'm not sure what its purpose would be)

We have a winner! The very words on the card are "Manneken Pis", and its purpose is "fountain" unless that counts as street furniture in which case its purpose is "tourist attraction", particularly with all the crappy shabby costumes they put on the nasty little sod. One manneken pis baton shaped like a corkscrew passed on! Thank god for that, the answering questions is much harder than the asking. I shall be sure to avoid getting anything right for the foreseeable future.

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[UK] It has water moving through its parts...

[IS,P] NOW I understand the merriment...!

[IS,P] Yes, that audience reaction contributed, together with your location and your "gimmicky piece of tat" comment. OK, this one is

VEGETABLE and ABSTRACT

With acknowledgements to Richard Curtis