Six Eye Dzi, 35.0mm × 12.1mm, cream-dominant field, cinnabar at eye boundaries (At-092823-6EBS3)

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On two of its four faces, the dark is not the ground — the cream is.

This bead inverts the usual reading of a dzi. Most beads in this collection present a dark ground with cream or white motif lines applied to it. This bead, on its cream-dominant faces (Images 7 and 11), presents broad warm peach-cream fields with the dark zones floating within them as markings — the eye pupils appear as dark oval dots sitting in pale space rather than white rings set against darkness. Rotate 90 degrees to Face B (Image 8) and the reading flips: deep near-black ground, cream-defined eye rings, a conventional dark-dominant composition. The bead holds two colour logics simultaneously, one per axis.

At 35.0mm × 12.1mm this is the most compact six-eye in the collection — shorter than At-112623-6EBS by 12mm and shorter than At-082824-6EBS2 by over 22mm, but carrying a proportionally wider body relative to its length. The form is a compact wide barrel rather than an elongated spindle, with a rounded, full profile that gives the bead a substantial presence despite its brevity.

The eye rings on this bead are the most diffuse and atmospheric of any six-eye in the collection. Rather than the sharp, high-contrast definition of the other six-eye bloodspot beads, the rings here have soft, graduated boundaries — the white or cream zone blends gradually into the dark ground, giving each eye an almost painterly quality. The six eyes are distributed across the four faces in the standard 2-2-1-1 or similar configuration, but because of the atmospheric definition and the cream-dominant face character, counting them requires holding the bead and rotating deliberately.

The surface is the most heavily weathered of all six-eye beads confirmed in photography. Fine crackle lines and micro-relief are visible across both the dark and cream zones throughout Images 2, 3, and 4 — this is a surface that has been aging for two to four centuries, and the photographs show it without concealment.

The end caps (Images 10 and 11) are warm peach-cream — a pale, warm blush tone, the softest and warmest end cap colour of any six-eye bloodspot bead in the collection. The drill holes are small and clean.

The microscope images (Images 5 and 6) reveal the cinnabar character precisely. The cinnabar (硃砂, zhūshā) — mercuric sulfide, a natural geological inclusion — concentrates most heavily at the boundary between the eye ring and the dark ground, forming a warm rust-orange to golden-brown granular ring around each eye. Individual cinnabar dots of slightly larger and more granular character than the fine pinpoint dots of At-060326-9E5 are also scattered across the open cream zones. The original listing's description of a perfect vermilion is consistent with the warm rust-orange to golden-brown character confirmed at microscope level. This boundary-concentrated, ring-forming cinnabar distribution — where the inclusion masses specifically at the dark-to-cream interface around each eye — is a distinct bloodspot signature not seen in this form in any other six-eye bead in the collection.

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The Six Eye Motif

The Six Eye dzi (六眼天珠, liù yǎn tiānzhū) is associated in Tibetan Buddhist tradition with release from the six realms of Samsara. Each eye addresses one realm of cyclical existence, offering the wearer protection and the possibility of liberation from each. The Six Eye is also linked to improved physiological wellbeing and the removal of impending misfortune — among the most purposeful of the eye-count motifs, oriented not only toward protection but toward liberation itself.

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Spec Block

Motif: Six Eye (六眼天珠, liù yǎn tiānzhū); all eyes open-ring type with dark oval centres; diffuse atmospheric ring definition; cream-dominant faces on two axes, dark-dominant on two axes Length: 35.0mm Diameter: 12.1mm Form: Compact wide barrel; shortest and proportionally widest six-eye in collection; full rounded profile Material: Two-tone agate — warm peach-cream dominant zones and deep near-black/dark charcoal-brown zones alternating across faces; warm peach-cream end caps (inherent agate colour) Age Estimate: 200–400 years Condition: No cracks; most heavily weathered surface of the six-eye series — fine crackle lines and micro-relief throughout; minor surface digs consistent with age Bloodspots: Yes — warm rust-orange to golden-brown cinnabar (硃砂) confirmed at microscope level; concentrated at eye ring boundaries forming partial granular rings; scattered dots in open cream zones; distinct granular dot character; microscope-confirmed in Images 5 & 6 Product ID: At-092823-6EBS3 Collection: Antique Dzi Collection | Bloodspot Dzi Collection

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Blog Links

• What Are Dzi Beads? History, Meaning & Authenticity
• The Meaning of Dzi Bead Eye Counts in Tibetan Buddhism

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The most compact six-eye in the collection, and the only one that makes you question which colour is the ground.

We never retouch our photos. What you see is exactly what you will receive.

📷 We never retouch our photos. Every bead is photographed exactly as it is. What you see is what you receive.

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