Patience bottle

Square bottle with rectangular shape made of thick, colourless glass with a short neck, "decorated" with Jesus on the cross and the passion tools almost without exception of carved, polychrome painted wood and probably some other materials: crown of thorns, lance, ladder, scourge, nails, hammer, tongs, sponge, die, lantern. The turned, high wooden stopper with a long peg has cross wedges on the inside which make it impossible to open.

This type of "patience bottle" dated to the 19th century and could have come from Saxony, Bohemia, Austria or Silesia, where numerous similar examples of folk art with the religious motif of Christ's crucifixion have survived. The detailed depiction of the instruments of suffering, also called "Arma Christi" [...]. [Verena Wasmuth]