After Charles Sykes, The Spirit of Ecstasy, modelled as the lady clad only in fluttering robes; resting on a brassed mounting, height 14 cm, Special Note, The Spirit of Ecstasy was designed by Charles Sykes and inspires a story about secret passion between two people at differing ends of the social spectrum. The model for the emblem was Eleanor Velasco Thornton, the secret love of John Walter Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu for over 10 years