Antique Three Diamond Eye & Tiger Tooth Dzi Bead with Bloodspots, 27.5mm × 13.0mm (At-053126-3DETT)

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The diamond eye is the older form.

Before the concentric ring — before the circular pupil-and-ring composition that defines most dzi beads in this collection — there was the diamond. Angular, four-pointed, its corners sharp rather than curved, the diamond eye is documented across the earliest strata of Tibetan dzi production as the precursor form from which the circular eye later developed. This bead carries three of them. They are etched in deep dark brown into a ground that is itself unlike anything else in this collection: a warm terracotta-red agate, closer in tone to carnelian than to the chocolate-brown or pitch-black fields of the other antique beads. The dark diamond motifs read as figures pressed into a warm reddish field — the contrast is quieter than cream-on-black, more internal, more ancient in character.

Each diamond eye is a composition in itself: a dark brown outer diamond frame, a warm cream inner field, a dark brown inner diamond — three nested angular forms, the whole unit reading as a pointed eye with geometric precision. On Face A, one diamond eye is centred and framed, flanked on each side by the tiger tooth motif — crossing diagonal stripe elements that form X-patterns against the warm ground, the tooth and the eye sharing the face in the same alternating logic documented in the Four Eye & Tiger Tooth bead At-082525-4ETT elsewhere in this collection. On Face B, two diamond eye forms appear — smaller, more compressed, but both fully resolved with the same outer-inner diamond structure.

The bloodspots on this bead are documented at macro scale in Images 4, 5, and 6. They appear as rust-orange and warm brown cinnabar micro-dots scattered across both the dark zones and the cream fields of the diamond eye interiors — a genuinely distributed bloodspot field rather than localised surface marks. Cinnabar (硃砂/zhūshā) — mercuric sulfide formed geologically within the agate during its original crystallisation — appears here in both its darker rust-brown expression and as fine orange scatter in the lighter zones. The agate surface micro-texture visible in the macro images confirms genuine age: fine pitting throughout, not the smooth surface of reproduction work.

The end caps are the most immediately striking physical feature of this bead. Both are a vivid terracotta-red agate — visible clearly in Images 2 and 3 — with bright orange-red drill holes that carry the cinnabar colour of the agate itself into the hole. No other bead in this collection has end caps of this tone. They confirm that the warm reddish ground of the body is the agate's natural colour throughout, not a surface treatment, and that the entire stone — body, caps, and drill channel — is the same warm iron-rich material.

At 27.5mm × 13.0mm this bead has an extreme width-to-length ratio — approaching disc proportions, wider relative to its length than almost any other bead in the collection. It sits differently in the hand from a torpedo — rounder, more immediate, the motif occupying a proportionally wider field.

The Three Diamond Eye Motif carries the same triad of intentions as the Three Eye — happiness, success, and longevity (福祿壽 / fú lù shòu) — but in an older symbolic language, the angular diamond form predating the circular eye in dzi history. The Tiger Tooth Motif adds strength and courage. This bead carries both simultaneously: the ancient happiness-triad in diamond form, and the force of forward movement on the same faces.

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SPECIFICATIONS

Motif: Three Diamond Eye (三鑽眼天珠) & Tiger Tooth — combined motif; one diamond eye + tiger tooth on Face A; two diamond eyes on Face B Length: 27.5 mm Diameter: 13.0 mm Form: Wide disc-like barrel with vivid terracotta-red end caps Material: Natural agate — warm terracotta-red ground throughout; dark brown diamond motif lines Age Estimate: ~300 years Condition: Excellent — no cracks; natural weathering marks and surface micro-pitting present Bloodspots: Yes — rust-orange and warm brown cinnabar micro-dots confirmed in dark zones and diamond eye cream fields at macro scale Product ID: At-053126-3DETT Collection: Antique Dzi Beads | Bloodspot Dzi

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• Antique Three Eye Dzi, 51.2mm × 13.0mm, warm brown agate — At-053126-3E
• Antique Four Eye & Tiger Tooth Dzi, 46.4mm × 11.5mm — At-082525-4ETT
• Antique Tasso / Tiger Tooth Dzi with Bloodspots, 29.9mm — At-052526-TaBS
• Antique Four Leaf Bodhi Dzi with Bloodspots, 35.7mm — At-101624-FLB
• Antique Double Bat & Two Eye Dzi with Bloodspots, 28.8mm — At-053026-DB2E

Further reading:

• The Diamond Eye — The Ancient Precursor to the Dzi Eye Motif
• What Are Bloodspots in Dzi Beads? Cinnabar and Geological Authenticity

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Three angular eyes. One terracotta-red stone. The oldest form of the eye motif, carrying happiness, strength, and three centuries of history.

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

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

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