 | Nicholas Belfield Dennys - Social Science - 1876 - 190 pages
...the second amongst the four supernatural creatures. Very early legends narrated that this bird made its appearance as a presage of the advent of virtuous...; to which another version adds the tail of a fish ; but in pictorial representations it is usually delineated as a compound between the peacock and the... | |
 | Marcus Bourne Huish - Art - 1889 - 280 pages
...South Kensington authorities are as great sinners in this respect as any.* According to Mayers, it has "the head of a pheasant, the beak of a swallow, the neck of a tortoise, and the outward JVb. 41. — Ho. from a Tomli Ornament. (Author's (Jollcetiun.) semblance of a dragon." This may be... | |
 | United States National Museum - 1902 - 1012 pages
...designation usually employed for the bird, and is frequently translated "phoenix." One writer describe* it as having the head of a pheasant, the beak of a...to which another version adds the tail of a fish, hut in pictorial representations it is usually delineated, as here, as a compound of a peacock and... | |
 | William Elliot Griffis - Religion - 1895 - 512 pages
...that of the kirin or unicorn, a presage of the advent of virtuous rulers and good government. It has the head of a pheasant, the beak of a swallow, the neck of a tortoise, and the features of the dragon and fish. Its colors and streaming feathers are gorgeous with iridian sheen,... | |
 | William Cosmo Monkhouse - Porcelain, Chinese - 1901 - 396 pages
...five colours of which are said to be emblems of the five cardinal virtues. Mr. Hippisley says that " One writer describes it as having the head of a pheasant,...to which another version adds the tail of a fish. Very early legends narrated that this bird made its appearance as a presage of the advent of virtuous... | |
 | United States National Museum - 1902 - 1020 pages
...t.vco,f?ng-hnang, is the generic designation usually employed for the bird, and is frequently translated "phoenix." One writer describes it as having the head of a pheasant,...to which another version adds the tail of a fish, but in pictorial representations it is usually delineated, as here, as a compound of a peacock and... | |
 | Alfred Edward Hippisley - Porcelain - 1902 - 168 pages
...ivio,fmg-huang, is the generic designation usually employed for the bird, and is frequently translated "phoenix." One writer describes it as having the head of a pheasant,...to which another version adds the tail of a fish, but in pictorial representations it is usually delineated, as here, as a compound of a peacock and... | |
 | Alfred Edward Hippisley - Porcelain - 1902 - 168 pages
...designation usually employed for the bird, and is frequently translated "phoenix." One writer descrilms it as having the head of a pheasant, the beak of a...to which another version adds the tail of a fish, but in pictorial representations it is usually delineated, as here, as a compound of a ¡>eacock and... | |
 | University of Pennsylvania. University Museum - Archaeology - 1916 - 650 pages
...bird of colossal proportions, something like the roc of Sindbad the Sailor; but later it was described as having "the head of a pheasant, the beak of a swallow,...tortoise, and the outward semblance of a dragon." In practice it is usually shown with the combined attributes of the peacock and the pheasant, embellished... | |
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One writer describes it as having the head of a pheasant, the beak of a swallow, the neck of a tortoise, and the outward semblance of a dragon, to which another version adds the tail of a fish... 
