A tiny bag, no bigger than a grain of salt, sold for €57,700 at an online auction on Wednesday.

It is a fluid yellow bag, based on the well-known Louis Vuitton design, barely visible to the human eye.

It was created by Brooklyn-based New York art collective MSCHF.

Calling its tiny creation the ‘Microscopic Handbag’, MSCHF claims the bag is narrow enough to fit through the eye of a needle and smaller than a grain of sea salt.

The object was made using two-photon polymerization, a manufacturing technology used to 3D print micro-scale plastic parts.

It was sold together with a microscope equipped with a digital screen through which one can see the bag.

The sale took place through Joopiter, an online auction house founded by American musician, record producer and designer Pharrell Williams.