Bring home drinking article made of clay (7)
I believe the answer is:
earthen
'made of clay' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'bring home drinking article' is the wordplay.
'bring home' becomes 'earn' (as in bringing home a wage).
'drinking' means one lot of letters goes inside another (inserted letters are consumed or drunk).
'article' becomes 'the' (the definite article in English).
'earn' placed around 'the' is 'EARTHEN'.
(Other definitions for earthen that I've seen before include "(Of a pot) made of fired clay" , "(Of pot) made of baked clay" , "Like many pots" , "Made of baked or fired clay" , "from the ground" .)