I received the following mail from Quartz Lime, and being not very competent at using the tumblr, can’t find a way of directly responding to his/her extremely kind message. Whoever s/he is, I hope s/he will see this (I added some comments in bold):
Iranian Painting
Regarding the Islamic painting you posted (the one with the human-faced horse… thing… flying over the lion), all I could find was this: http://www.payvand.com/news/09/may/1181.html (this is an extremely useful site and not only for the info on glass painting but all kinds of cultural stuff Iranian) and this: http://www.dayartgallery.com/En/News.aspx?new_id=59 (this link is broken, trying to reach it dayartgallery through google doesn’t help either). That first article has some detail on a book about Iranian glass paintings, including how to order it, although it doesn’t mention whether an english version is available or not. There’s also this: http://www.persianpaintings.com/classpai.html (contains some lovely persian paintings though infuriatingly with no info on them) Which has a tiny bit of detail on Persian glass painting. Apologies for not being able to be of more help. (Also, I apologise if I submitted this wrong or somehow destroyed the formatting, I am bad at tumblr.)