Ca. 300 AD.A stunning pale blue glass bottle featuring a finely modelled piriform body decorated with elegant trailing, set upon a slightly concave base with a flounce edge. Its tubular neck ends in a splayed rim. Glass was a major manufacturing industry in the Roman Empire, especially after the invention of glassblowing in the middle of the first century BC, when glass became used for a variety of purposes including vessels, jewellery and construction materials such as glass or tiles. Roman glassmaking reached the farthest corners of the Empire and flourished until about 400 AD, when the Roman Empire started to disintegrate, finally falling in the late 5th century AD. Vessels would probably have been used for perfumes, oils (used as soap) and/or medicines in antiquity.Size: L:89mm / W:58.4mm ; 47gProvenance: Property of a West London gentleman; previously in a collection formed on the UK/International art market in the 1990s.