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Line taken in skilful porcelain (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

delft

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'porcelain' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?

'line taken in skilful' is the wordplay.
'line' becomes 'l' (used when specifying particular lines from a poem).
'taken in' is an insertion indicator.
'skilful' becomes 'deft' (deft means skilful).
'l' going inside 'deft' is 'DELFT'.

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(Other definitions for delft that I've seen before include "Dutch town famous for ceramics" , "Blue and white earthenware (from Holland)" , "Dutch blue and white glazed earthenware" , "A type of earthenware" , "Vermeer's town - earthenware" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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