b"8PORCELAIN & CERAMICS 22LENCI Italian Art Deco figural porcelain table lamp with black fabric and tassel shade,signed Lenci, Made in Italy, with original label,76cm high overallLenci was founded in 1919 in Turin, Italy by Enrico Scavini, a business agent and his wife, Elena Knig.The name Lenci was an acronym for Ludus est nobis constanter industria [Play is our constant work]. The couple's first daughter had unexpectedly suddenly died during a Spanish influenza epidemic, and as reaction to the loss, Elena Knig had started to create rag dolls, imagining that they could be toys for her lost child. Distributed firstly only among the friends of the family, Elena Knigs rag dolls soon achieved popularity with the wider public. In 1928 the company diversified into ceramics, producing figurines, wall plaques and decorative items hiring a number of well-regarded artists and modellers.$8001,20022 24"