Lifting topless porcelain dish up (5)
I believe the answer is:
serve
'dish up' is the definition.
(I know that dish up can be written as serve)
'lifting topless porcelain' is the wordplay.
'lifting' shows that the letters should be reversed in order.
'topless' means to remove the first letter.
'porcelain' becomes 'sevres' (I've seen this before).
'sevres' with its first letter removed is 'evres'.
'evres' reversed gives 'SERVE'.
(Other definitions for serve that I've seen before include "It could be ace" , "Work for, be of use to" , "Milton 'They also . . . . . who only stand and wait'" , "Opening shot at tennis" , "Wait - start the play" .)