Glass, 26.84 grams, 71.41 mm. Circa 1st-3rd century AD. A delicate pale blue vessel with pontil base, broad slightly funicular neck with thickened rim and barrel-shaped body with vertical ribbing. Reference: cf. Roman bottle illustrated in Whitehouse, D. Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, vol.1, New York, 1997 item 237. Very fine condition. Provenance: from an old English collection.