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Ship in a Bottle Illustration

Stable Diffusion
By Varun Sharma Tested with Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0

Ship in a Bottle is an SDXL 1.0 prompt that renders the classic impossibility in clean illustrative style. It uses soft light on the glass to separate the bottle from the shelf.

Last tested: July 2026 with Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0

Part of the Stable Diffusion prompt library · see more line art prompts .

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A model tall ship with full rigging inside a corked glass bottle on a shelf.
Ship in a Bottle Illustration — Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0, Aspect ratio 3:2

Prompt 

A detailed model tall ship with three masts and full rigging inside a clear glass bottle lying on its side, the bottle sealed with a cork, on a wooden shelf, soft light catching the glass, clean illustrative style with fine linework on the rigging, warm muted background

Negative prompt 

blurry, low quality, deformed, text, watermark, distorted ship, broken masts, cluttered shelf

Settings

Model
Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0
Aspect ratio
3:2
Steps
30
CFG scale
6.5
Sampler
DPM++ 2M Karras

How to use this prompt

The charm of a ship in a bottle is the rigging, and rigging is fine linework, so the prompt calls for fine linework on the rigging and a clean illustrative style — a painterly approach turns the lines to mush. Three masts is a countable, reliable number, so it is safe to state. The glass must read as glass, which needs a highlight, so the prompt adds soft light catching the glass. The negative prompt bars distorted ship and broken masts, the two most common failure modes when the model tries to fit a complex object inside a curved one. Keep the background warm and muted so the bottle stands forward.

Variations to try

  • The bottle upright with the ship on a sea of fabric waves
  • A close-up of the cork and the bottle's neck
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For developers — copy this prompt as JSON 
{
  "title": "Ship in a Bottle Illustration",
  "prompt": "A detailed model tall ship with three masts and full rigging inside a clear glass bottle lying on its side, the bottle sealed with a cork, on a wooden shelf, soft light catching the glass, clean illustrative style with fine linework on the rigging, warm muted background",
  "negative_prompt": "blurry, low quality, deformed, text, watermark, distorted ship, broken masts, cluttered shelf",
  "model": "Stable Diffusion",
  "model_version": "SDXL 1.0",
  "settings": {
    "aspect_ratio": "3:2",
    "steps": 30,
    "cfg": 6.5,
    "sampler": "DPM++ 2M Karras"
  },
  "style_tags": [
    "line-art",
    "vintage"
  ],
  "use_case_tags": [
    "wall-art",
    "illustration"
  ],
  "source_url": "https://promptkoi.com/prompts/stable-diffusion/ship-in-bottle/"
}

The whole library is available as an open JSON dataset · developer docs.