diff --git a/lib/Doctrine/ORM/Mapping/ReflectionEmbeddedProperty.php b/lib/Doctrine/ORM/Mapping/ReflectionEmbeddedProperty.php
index 0163ebb89..b224fff4e 100644
--- a/lib/Doctrine/ORM/Mapping/ReflectionEmbeddedProperty.php
+++ b/lib/Doctrine/ORM/Mapping/ReflectionEmbeddedProperty.php
@@ -34,15 +34,20 @@ use ReflectionProperty;
 class ReflectionEmbeddedProperty extends ReflectionProperty
 {
     /**
-     * @var ReflectionProperty
+     * @var ReflectionProperty reflection property of the class where the embedded object has to be put
      */
     private $parentProperty;
 
     /**
-     * @var ReflectionProperty
+     * @var ReflectionProperty reflection property of the embedded object
      */
     private $childProperty;
 
+    /**
+     * @var string name of the embedded class to be eventually instantiated
+     */
+    private $embeddedClass;
+
     /**
      * @var Instantiator|null
      */
@@ -51,12 +56,13 @@ class ReflectionEmbeddedProperty extends ReflectionProperty
     /**
      * @param ReflectionProperty $parentProperty
      * @param ReflectionProperty $childProperty
-     * @param string             $class
+     * @param string             $embeddedClass
      */
-    public function __construct(ReflectionProperty $parentProperty, ReflectionProperty $childProperty, $class)
+    public function __construct(ReflectionProperty $parentProperty, ReflectionProperty $childProperty, $embeddedClass)
     {
-        $this->parentProperty = $parentProperty;
-        $this->childProperty  = $childProperty;
+        $this->parentProperty  = $parentProperty;
+        $this->childProperty   = $childProperty;
+        $this->embeddedClass   = (string) $embeddedClass;
 
         parent::__construct($childProperty->getDeclaringClass()->getName(), $childProperty->getName());
     }
@@ -85,7 +91,7 @@ class ReflectionEmbeddedProperty extends ReflectionProperty
         if (null === $embeddedObject) {
             $this->instantiator = $this->instantiator ?: new Instantiator();
 
-            $embeddedObject = $this->instantiator->instantiate($this->class);
+            $embeddedObject = $this->instantiator->instantiate($this->embeddedClass);
 
             $this->parentProperty->setValue($object, $embeddedObject);
         }
diff --git a/tests/Doctrine/Tests/Models/Reflection/AbstractEmbeddable.php b/tests/Doctrine/Tests/Models/Reflection/AbstractEmbeddable.php
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2fecb4613
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/Doctrine/Tests/Models/Reflection/AbstractEmbeddable.php
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace Doctrine\Tests\Models\Reflection;
+
+/**
+ * A test asset used to check that embeddables support properties defined in abstract classes
+ */
+abstract class AbstractEmbeddable
+{
+    private $propertyInAbstractClass;
+}
diff --git a/tests/Doctrine/Tests/Models/Reflection/ConcreteEmbeddable.php b/tests/Doctrine/Tests/Models/Reflection/ConcreteEmbeddable.php
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9fc5f36b6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/Doctrine/Tests/Models/Reflection/ConcreteEmbeddable.php
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace Doctrine\Tests\Models\Reflection;
+
+/**
+ * A test asset used to check that embeddables support properties defined in abstract classes
+ */
+class ConcreteEmbeddable extends AbstractEmbeddable
+{
+    private $propertyInConcreteClass;
+}
diff --git a/tests/Doctrine/Tests/ORM/Mapping/ReflectionEmbeddedPropertyTest.php b/tests/Doctrine/Tests/ORM/Mapping/ReflectionEmbeddedPropertyTest.php
index 8a67efdf3..9be006e5a 100644
--- a/tests/Doctrine/Tests/ORM/Mapping/ReflectionEmbeddedPropertyTest.php
+++ b/tests/Doctrine/Tests/ORM/Mapping/ReflectionEmbeddedPropertyTest.php
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ namespace Doctrine\Tests\ORM\Mapping;
 
 use Doctrine\Instantiator\Instantiator;
 use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping\ReflectionEmbeddedProperty;
+use Doctrine\Tests\Models\Mapping\Entity;
 use ReflectionProperty;
 
 /**
@@ -14,20 +15,18 @@ use ReflectionProperty;
 class ReflectionEmbeddedPropertyTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
 {
     /**
-     * @param ReflectionProperty $parentProperty
-     * @param ReflectionProperty $childProperty
+     * @param ReflectionProperty $parentProperty  property of the embeddable/entity where to write the embeddable to
+     * @param ReflectionProperty $childProperty   property of the embeddable class where to write values to
+     * @param string             $embeddableClass name of the embeddable class to be instantiated
      *
      * @dataProvider getTestedReflectionProperties
      */
     public function testCanSetAndGetEmbeddedProperty(
         ReflectionProperty $parentProperty,
-        ReflectionProperty $childProperty
+        ReflectionProperty $childProperty,
+        $embeddableClass
     ) {
-        $embeddedPropertyReflection = new ReflectionEmbeddedProperty(
-            $parentProperty,
-            $childProperty,
-            $childProperty->getDeclaringClass()->getName()
-        );
+        $embeddedPropertyReflection = new ReflectionEmbeddedProperty($parentProperty, $childProperty, $embeddableClass);
 
         $instantiator = new Instantiator();
 
@@ -43,21 +42,18 @@ class ReflectionEmbeddedPropertyTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
     }
 
     /**
-     * @param ReflectionProperty $parentProperty
-     * @param ReflectionProperty $childProperty
+     * @param ReflectionProperty $parentProperty  property of the embeddable/entity where to write the embeddable to
+     * @param ReflectionProperty $childProperty   property of the embeddable class where to write values to
+     * @param string             $embeddableClass name of the embeddable class to be instantiated
      *
      * @dataProvider getTestedReflectionProperties
      */
     public function testWillSkipReadingPropertiesFromNullEmbeddable(
         ReflectionProperty $parentProperty,
-        ReflectionProperty $childProperty
-    )
-    {
-        $embeddedPropertyReflection = new ReflectionEmbeddedProperty(
-            $parentProperty,
-            $childProperty,
-            $childProperty->getDeclaringClass()->getName()
-        );
+        ReflectionProperty $childProperty,
+        $embeddableClass
+    ) {
+        $embeddedPropertyReflection = new ReflectionEmbeddedProperty($parentProperty, $childProperty, $embeddableClass);
 
         $instantiator = new Instantiator();
 
@@ -69,7 +65,7 @@ class ReflectionEmbeddedPropertyTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
     /**
      * Data provider
      *
-     * @return ReflectionProperty[][]
+     * @return ReflectionProperty[][]|string[][]
      */
     public function getTestedReflectionProperties()
     {
@@ -83,6 +79,30 @@ class ReflectionEmbeddedPropertyTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
                     'Doctrine\\Tests\\Models\\Generic\\BooleanModel',
                     'id'
                 ),
+                'Doctrine\\Tests\\Models\\Generic\\BooleanModel'
+            ),
+            // reflection on embeddables that have properties defined in abstract ancestors:
+            array(
+                $this->getReflectionProperty(
+                    'Doctrine\\Tests\\Models\\Generic\\BooleanModel',
+                    'id'
+                ),
+                $this->getReflectionProperty(
+                    'Doctrine\\Tests\\Models\\Reflection\\AbstractEmbeddable',
+                    'propertyInAbstractClass'
+                ),
+                'Doctrine\\Tests\\Models\\Reflection\\ConcreteEmbeddable'
+            ),
+            array(
+                $this->getReflectionProperty(
+                    'Doctrine\\Tests\\Models\\Generic\\BooleanModel',
+                    'id'
+                ),
+                $this->getReflectionProperty(
+                    'Doctrine\\Tests\\Models\\Reflection\\ConcreteEmbeddable',
+                    'propertyInConcreteClass'
+                ),
+                'Doctrine\\Tests\\Models\\Reflection\\ConcreteEmbeddable'
             ),
             // reflection on classes extending internal PHP classes:
             array(
@@ -94,6 +114,7 @@ class ReflectionEmbeddedPropertyTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
                     'Doctrine\\Tests\\Models\\Reflection\\ArrayObjectExtendingClass',
                     'privateProperty'
                 ),
+                'Doctrine\\Tests\\Models\\Reflection\\ArrayObjectExtendingClass'
             ),
             array(
                 $this->getReflectionProperty(
@@ -104,6 +125,7 @@ class ReflectionEmbeddedPropertyTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
                     'Doctrine\\Tests\\Models\\Reflection\\ArrayObjectExtendingClass',
                     'protectedProperty'
                 ),
+                'Doctrine\\Tests\\Models\\Reflection\\ArrayObjectExtendingClass'
             ),
             array(
                 $this->getReflectionProperty(
@@ -114,6 +136,7 @@ class ReflectionEmbeddedPropertyTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
                     'Doctrine\\Tests\\Models\\Reflection\\ArrayObjectExtendingClass',
                     'publicProperty'
                 ),
+                'Doctrine\\Tests\\Models\\Reflection\\ArrayObjectExtendingClass'
             ),
         );
     }