Gladiators, who fought in arenas as entertainment, inspired this silver look with a short, pleated skirt and belt, quilted with confronting hippocamps, Hellenistic seahorses who pulled Neptune’s chariot. Artists revived this mythological creature—a symbol of both the sea and the netherworld—during the Renaissance, as seen in a wine cistern illustrating scenes of the water god and his seahorse. A decorative and expertly constructed golden Neptune rides a hippocamp made in part of an exotic curling turban shell.