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Motif · motif_cocktail_glass

Cocktail Glass

A long-stemmed cocktail glass, the central object of the Man's Ruin composition. Two independent Tattoo Life features attest it; the meaning, as with the cards, belongs to the composition.
Attested
Low confidenceresearched

1 attested · 1 promoted2 sources · T2

What the research says

motifs_seed
Category
object
Variants
long-stemmed glass; glass with figure
Common styles
american traditional
Common themes
vice
Composition behaviors
central element of a Man's Ruin composition, with a figure in the glass

Provenance

2 resolved

  • Man's Ruin, what else? (opens in a new tab)

    Tier 2

    Maggie Whales, Tattoo Life

    Tattoo magazine feature on the Man's Ruin composition. Verbatim, INCLUDING the page's own spelling and grammar, transcribed faithfully rather than corrected: "a long-stemmed cocktail glasss with an fallen woman, playing cards in the background and a weapon, like a gun or knife, to complete the picture". States the composition "brings together the vices which cause the downfall of man, all those things which man cannot control". This is a COMPOSITION-level meaning: the reading belongs to the assembled group, and this batch edges it to the component objects only with that scope written on each edge.

    professional tattoo source · published 2022-05-19 · retrieved 2026-08-30

  • The most classic subjects in Traditional tattoos (opens in a new tab)

    Tier 2

    Tattoo Life Crew, Tattoo Life

    States that in American Traditional the black outline must be thick and well defined, the colours bold, vivid and mainly primary (red, blue, green, yellow), with flat colouring without gradients and simple, clearly defined shapes with minimal detail. Names anchors, hearts, skulls, roses, eagles and snakes as the iconic subjects, plus women in cocktail glasses, inscriptions, felines, predators and cherubs. Explains the compactness as a consequence of designs having to be executed quickly while staying visible and memorable.

    professional tattoo source · published 2024-12-09 · retrieved 2026-08-28

Related concepts

2 links

Can symbolize · 1

  • → outgoingViceSymbolThin
    strength 0.25researched

    COMPOSITION-SCOPED. The source's description, transcribed with its own spelling and grammar intact rather than corrected: “a long-stemmed cocktail glasss with an fallen woman, playing cards in the background and a weapon, like a gun or knife, to complete the picture”. The meaning attaches to that assembly, which the page says “brings together the vices which cause the downfall of man”.

Frequently used in · 1

  • → outgoingAmerican TraditionalStyleThin
    strength 0.50promoted · not an independent attestationresearched

    Promoted from motifs_seed.common_styles of motif_cocktail_glass ('american traditional'). Provenance inherited from the parent row(s): source_tattoolife_mans_ruin; source_tattoolife_traditional_subjects; the first is carried in source_id. No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.5 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by ONE parent row's association column and by no second row; the pack's scale reads 0.5 as 'context-dependent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.