Impossible bottle

The patience bottle ( also patience bottle or Listed ) is a model representation of a religious or everyday scene, which is mounted in a bottle.

The art to bring any things in a bottle, is almost 300 years old. In the Allgäu and in the Erzgebirge, there was even then the so-called Registered lessons, also called patience bottles. Cribs and scenes from the Passion, Christ, Mary and other saints were incorporated into bottles; was filled so from the long winter evenings and earned added a few pennies. From the traditionally a mining Ore originate bottles with representations of the ore mining and the Christmas pyramids bottles. A special case of patience bottle represents the Holy Spirit ball

A similar craft which may have the same roots, is the drawing of ships in bottles.