diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/Serializer/Normalizer/AbstractNormalizer.php b/src/Symfony/Component/Serializer/Normalizer/AbstractNormalizer.php
index c1e621fe90..c8b9bdac7d 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/Serializer/Normalizer/AbstractNormalizer.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/Serializer/Normalizer/AbstractNormalizer.php
@@ -402,6 +402,8 @@ abstract class AbstractNormalizer extends SerializerAwareNormalizer implements N
     {
         if (isset($parentContext[self::ATTRIBUTES][$attribute])) {
             $parentContext[self::ATTRIBUTES] = $parentContext[self::ATTRIBUTES][$attribute];
+        } else {
+            unset($parentContext[self::ATTRIBUTES]);
         }
 
         return $parentContext;
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/Serializer/Tests/Normalizer/ObjectNormalizerTest.php b/src/Symfony/Component/Serializer/Tests/Normalizer/ObjectNormalizerTest.php
index 9407fdf52d..b8a628f0f8 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/Serializer/Tests/Normalizer/ObjectNormalizerTest.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/Serializer/Tests/Normalizer/ObjectNormalizerTest.php
@@ -673,6 +673,16 @@ class ObjectNormalizerTest extends TestCase
             ),
             $serializer->normalize($objectDummy, null, $context)
         );
+
+        $context = array('attributes' => array('foo', 'baz', 'object'));
+        $this->assertEquals(
+            array(
+                'foo' => 'foo',
+                'baz' => true,
+                'object' => array('foo' => 'innerFoo', 'bar' => 'innerBar'),
+            ),
+            $serializer->normalize($objectDummy, null, $context)
+        );
     }
 
     public function testAttributesContextDenormalize()