Historical clue formulations

• Some porcelain pieces — 2026-05-13
• "Nixon in ___" (John Adams opera) — 2024-12-31
• Whence feng shui — 2023-01-22
• Tableware for special guests — 2022-12-27
• Traditional 20th wedding anniversary gift — 2022-03-25
• Where dominoes were invented — 2021-09-05
• Nice dinnerware — 2021-06-16
• Land west of the Yellow Sea — 2021-04-19
• Where the compass was invented — 2021-01-05
• Fine dishes — 2020-09-22
• Porcelain — 2020-01-22
• Setting for a fine meal — 2017-04-23
• Set traditionally handed down to an eldest daughter — 2016-09-20
• Shanghai's land — 2016-01-25
• Good dishes — 2013-08-07
• Where 84-Across were invented — 2013-06-30
• [20] — 2013-01-16
• World powerhouse in table tennis — 2012-12-29
• With 1-Across, hybrid tea's ancestor — 2012-11-30
• Dinette set — 2012-08-12
• Popular wedding gift — 2010-03-25
• Kind of doll — 2008-06-14
• Dishes for fancy meals — 2008-03-03
• Great Wall site — 2007-08-15
• Home to 1.3 billion people — 2006-07-03
• Best dishes, perhaps — 2003-01-03
• 2008 Summer Olympics host — 2001-11-19
• Fine dinnerware — 2000-11-07
• Hutch contents — 2000-02-20
• 20th anniversary symbol — 1998-12-27
• Spode, e.g. — 1998-08-13
• Canton's country — 1998-05-05
• Fine dinnerware — 1998-02-03
• Tableware — 1997-01-07
• Popular wedding gift — 1996-12-21
• It may be fine when company comes — 1996-04-17
• Sèvres or Wedgwood — 1995-12-26
• The good dishes — 1995-01-25
• One home of 5-Across — 1994-09-18
• Dinnerware — 1993-12-21