Terret (Rein Guide)
Romano-Celtic, 1st century a.d.
Bronze with champlevé enamel
Purchase, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund; Joseph Pulitzer Bequest; Pfeiffer, Rogers, Fletcher, Louis V. Bell, and Dodge Funds; and J. Richardson Dilworth, Peter Sharp, and Annette Reed Gifts, 1988 (1988.79)

Cast in series and used in pairs, terrets were employed to channel the reins between the horses and the chariot. Bowl-shaped forms and balanced decoration of comma and pelta-and-circle motifs in champlevé enamel make this example especially handsome. In the champlevé enameling technique, a design made by lines or cells cut into the metal base is filled with powdered enamel of various colors and fired to fuse the enamels.