diff --git a/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/databind/deser/std/ArrayBlockingQueueDeserializer.java b/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/databind/deser/std/ArrayBlockingQueueDeserializer.java
index b526b6138f..c8672ebeb1 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/databind/deser/std/ArrayBlockingQueueDeserializer.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/databind/deser/std/ArrayBlockingQueueDeserializer.java
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ public Collection<Object> deserialize(JsonParser p, DeserializationContext ctxt,
             return handleNonArray(p, ctxt, new ArrayBlockingQueue<Object>(1));
         }
         result0 = super.deserialize(p, ctxt, new ArrayList<Object>());
+        if (result0.isEmpty()) return new ArrayBlockingQueue<Object>(1, false);
         return new ArrayBlockingQueue<Object>(result0.size(), false, result0);
     }
 
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/databind/deser/TestEmptyArrayBlockingQueueDeser.java b/src/test/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/databind/deser/TestEmptyArrayBlockingQueueDeser.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e1fe82567f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/databind/deser/TestEmptyArrayBlockingQueueDeser.java
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+package com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import org.junit.Assert;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.concurrent.ArrayBlockingQueue;
+
+public class TestEmptyArrayBlockingQueueDeser {
+
+    @Test
+    public void emptyCollectionDeser() throws JsonProcessingException, IOException {
+        ObjectMapper om = new ObjectMapper();
+        String json = om.writeValueAsString(new RemoteEntity());
+        Entity entity = om.readValue(json, Entity.class);
+        Assert.assertEquals(0, entity.values.size());
+    }
+
+
+
+    private static class RemoteEntity{
+        private Collection<Double> values = new ArrayBlockingQueue<>(20);
+
+        public Collection<Double> getValues() {
+            return values;
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static class Entity{
+        private ArrayBlockingQueue<Double> values;
+
+        public Collection<Double> getValues() {
+            return values;
+        }
+    }
+}