The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of September 10, 2026

A dark brown carpenter's plane shaped with a rectangular base curls upward and back into a scroll-like handle at the front. The side walls rise in two scalloped ridges toward the taller back section, bridged by a horizontal crossbar in the center. Irregular, chipped edges and a heavily pitted surface give way to a rugged, weathered appearance across the entire form.

Carpenter's Plane

1400s

Italy

wood
Overall: 24.2 cm (9 1/2 in.)
Gift of Dr. Dudley P. Allen 1916.24
Location: Not on view
  • "The Relation of the Museum to Local Industry." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 5, no. 10 (1918): 122-31. Reproduced: p. 120; Mentioned: pp. 122-123 www.jstor.org
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1916.24