Thus it appears that although Josiah Wedgwood's words of jest may have been written too early, perhaps he was right: the age in which porcelain should be called "China" seems to be over.
如此看來，老威基伍德的那句戲言可能說得早了些，不過，他或許並沒有錯：瓷器的名字叫「中國」的時代，是過去了。