Nine Eye Motif Dzi Bead with Bloodspots, 42.2×13.2mm, Black & Brown Agate (At-070626-9EBS)

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The motif lines on this bead are not white. Under daylight and in close photographs, they read as a warm cream with a sandy, slightly tan cast — the cream zones of the agate carrying two to three centuries of mineral absorption that has shifted their colour away from the sharp white of a newer piece. And within those warm cream zones, the bloodspots sit: reddish-brown cinnabar micro-dots, visible to the naked eye and confirmed across both macro photographs, scattered through the eye rings and the connecting lines with the uneven, organic distribution that only natural mineral inclusions produce.

Nine eyes run the length of this bead in two staggered rows — upper and lower, the count shifting between faces as the bead turns. The connecting element between them is a stepped, maze-like network of right-angled and S-curve cream lines that routes between eye positions in angular turns rather than smooth waves. The overall composition reads as dense and architectural: a grid of cream lines on a deep black ground, the nine eyes sitting within that grid at irregular intervals. On Face A (Image 1) the upper register carries more eyes; the rotation of Image 2 and Image 3 shows how the distribution shifts, the maze-like connecting structure reading differently from each face, with no single angle giving the complete picture.

The ground of this bead is deep black through the central body — confirmed from white-background photography — transitioning to warm brown at both drill-end caps. The end caps are distinctly different in tone from both the black central body and the warm cream motif lines, creating a three-tone structure running from tip to tip: warm brown end cap, deep black ground, warm cream etching. Both drill holes are small and well-centred, with warm reddish-brown interiors visible in the angled photographs.

At 42.2×13.2mm, this bead sits close in scale to its sister At-061926-9E6BS (41.3×14.5mm) — similar length, slightly narrower in diameter. Both share the same crafting tradition: the same stepped connecting line vocabulary, the same Tibetan hand-etching technique, the same age range of 200–300 years. Where At-061926-9E6BS carries compound dual-zone bloodspots — cinnabar documented in both its cream zones and its black ground zones — the bloodspot presentation here is cream-zone focused: all documented inclusions sit within the cream-white etching zones. A different bloodspot character from the same bloodspot tradition.

No cracks are visible in any of the seven photographs. This is an independent finding. A fine age-consistent surface texture is visible under macro — the stone has not retained the sharp gloss of a recent piece, but shows the subdued, softened surface character of agate that has been worn and handled across generations.

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The Nine Eye Motif (九眼天珠, jiǔ yǎn tiānzhū)

The nine-eye dzi is universally recognised across Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal, China, Taiwan, Mongolia, and Southeast Asia as the King of All Dzi Motifs — the most auspicious configuration in the entire tradition. Its nine eyes are associated with nine simultaneous blessings: power, authority, reputation, compassion, wisdom, health, wealth, virtue, and the removal of obstacles. A nine-eye dzi does not offer a single focused benefit — it opens nine channels of auspicious energy simultaneously, making it the preferred talisman of merchants, practitioners, and collectors across the Himalayan and Chinese Buddhist world for centuries.

The cinnabar bloodspots (硃砂, zhūshā, mercuric sulfide) within this bead carry their own standing in the tradition. Cinnabar's presence within the agate is understood as a marker of the stone's vitality — evidence that the material has accumulated energy over time. In Tibetan collecting tradition, a nine-eye bead with confirmed cinnabar inclusions is considered among the most complete combinations of auspiciousness the dzi tradition produces.

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Motif — Nine Eye (九眼天珠, jiǔ yǎn tiānzhū); nine concentric-ring eyes distributed in staggered upper-lower rows across two lateral faces; connected by stepped right-angled and S-curve cream line network; warm cream-toned motif lines with age-consistent sandy mineral absorption
Length — 42.2mm
Diameter — 13.2mm
Form — Elongated fusiform barrel
Material — Agate; deep black central body confirmed from white-background photography; warm brown end caps at both drill ends; warm cream motif lines with age toning
Age Estimate — 200–300 years
Condition — No cracks observed (independent finding); subdued matte-gloss surface with age-consistent micro-texture; warm toning of cream zones consistent with age and mineral absorption
Bloodspots — Yes — Tier 3. Macro photographs (Images 6 and 7) document reddish-brown cinnabar (硃砂, zhūshā, mercuric sulfide) micro-dots within the cream-white eye rings and connector band zones. Distribution: cream-zone focused scattered. All documented inclusions sit within the cream etching zones; no compound black-zone presentation on this piece
Product ID — At-070626-9EBS
Collection — Antique Dzi Beads | Bloodspot Dzi

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You may also like:

Nine Eye Dzi with Cinnabar Bloodspots, 41.3×14.5mm — At-061926-9E6BS — sister bead, same crafting tradition; compound dual-zone bloodspots in both cream and black zones; compare directly

Antique Nine Eye Dzi with Cinnabar Bloodspots — At-060326-9E5 — same crafting tradition

Antique Nine Eye Dzi, 77.0mm — At-062926-9EBS — longest straight-barrel dzi in the collection; Tier 3 bloodspots

Antique Dzi Collection | Bloodspot Dzi Collection

Further reading:

Dzi Bead Blog — Ancient Dzi Shop

Buddhism Blog — Ancient Dzi Shop

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Nine eyes, two centuries of wear, and cinnabar that has been finding its way through the cream zones of the stone since before anyone alive was born.

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📷 All 7 product images are unretouched. Lighting may affect colour rendering; the white-background shots are the most accurate reference for ground colour.

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