Ca. 100-300 AD.A Roman glass flask featuring a bulbous body, gently tapering to a base, a long, tubular neck, and a wide mouth with everted rim. Beautiful flecks of iridescence can be seen all over the body. 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. Size: L:60mm / W:30mm ; 14gProvenance: Private UK collection; From an old British collection formed in the 1990s.