diff --git a/ion/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/ion/ionvalue/IonValueDeserializer.java b/ion/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/ion/ionvalue/IonValueDeserializer.java
index ed435ed7a..128f503ca 100644
--- a/ion/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/ion/ionvalue/IonValueDeserializer.java
+++ b/ion/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/ion/ionvalue/IonValueDeserializer.java
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationContext;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonMappingException;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonDeserializer;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.util.AccessPattern;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.ion.IonParser;
 import com.amazon.ion.IonSystem;
 import com.amazon.ion.IonValue;
@@ -53,4 +54,26 @@ public IonValue deserialize(JsonParser jp, DeserializationContext ctxt) throws I
         throw JsonMappingException.from(jp, "Cannot deserialize embedded object type "
                 + embeddedObject.getClass().getCanonicalName() + " into IonValue");
     }
+
+    @Override
+    public IonValue getNullValue(DeserializationContext ctxt) throws JsonMappingException {
+        try {
+            Object embeddedObj = ctxt.getParser().getEmbeddedObject();
+            if (embeddedObj instanceof IonValue) {
+                IonValue iv = (IonValue) embeddedObj;
+                if (iv.isNullValue()) {
+                    return iv;
+                }
+            }
+
+            return super.getNullValue(ctxt);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw JsonMappingException.from(ctxt, e.toString());
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public AccessPattern getNullAccessPattern() {
+        return AccessPattern.DYNAMIC;
+    }
 }
diff --git a/ion/src/test/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/ion/ionvalue/IonValueDeserializerTest.java b/ion/src/test/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/ion/ionvalue/IonValueDeserializerTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..88b0232bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ion/src/test/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/ion/ionvalue/IonValueDeserializerTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,178 @@
+package com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.ion.ionvalue;
+
+import com.amazon.ion.IonSystem;
+import com.amazon.ion.IonValue;
+import com.amazon.ion.system.IonSystemBuilder;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonAnyGetter;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonAnySetter;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.util.AccessPattern;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+import static com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.PropertyNamingStrategies.SNAKE_CASE;
+
+public class IonValueDeserializerTest {
+    private static class Data<T> {
+
+        private final Map<String, T> map = new HashMap<>();
+
+        @JsonAnySetter
+        public void put(String key, T value) {
+            map.put(key, value);
+        }
+
+        @JsonAnyGetter
+        public Map<String, T> getAllData() {
+            return map;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public int hashCode() {
+            return map.hashCode();
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public String toString() {
+            return map.toString();
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public boolean equals(Object obj) {
+            if (this == obj) {
+                return true;
+            }
+            if (obj == null) {
+                return false;
+            }
+            if (getClass() != obj.getClass()) {
+                return false;
+            }
+            Data other = (Data) obj;
+            return map.equals(other.map);
+        }
+
+    }
+
+    private static class StringData extends Data<String> {
+
+    }
+
+    private static class IonValueData extends Data<IonValue> {
+
+    }
+
+    private static final IonSystem SYSTEM = IonSystemBuilder.standard().build();
+    private static final IonValueMapper ION_VALUE_MAPPER = new IonValueMapper(SYSTEM, SNAKE_CASE);
+
+    @Test
+    public void shouldBeAbleToDeserialize() throws Exception {
+        IonValue ion = ion("{a:1, b:2, c:3}");
+
+        IonValueData data = ION_VALUE_MAPPER.parse(ion, IonValueData.class);
+
+        assertEquals(3, data.getAllData().size());
+        assertEquals(ion("1"), data.getAllData().get("a"));
+        assertEquals(ion("2"), data.getAllData().get("b"));
+        assertEquals(ion("3"), data.getAllData().get("c"));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void shouldBeAbleToDeserializeIncludingNullList() throws Exception {
+        IonValue ion = ion("{a:1, b:2, c:null.list}");
+
+        IonValueData data = ION_VALUE_MAPPER.parse(ion, IonValueData.class);
+
+        assertEquals(3, data.getAllData().size());
+        assertEquals(ion("1"), data.getAllData().get("a"));
+        assertEquals(ion("2"), data.getAllData().get("b"));
+        assertEquals(ion("null.list"), data.getAllData().get("c"));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void shouldBeAbleToDeserializeNullList() throws Exception {
+        IonValue ion = ion("{c:null.list}");
+
+        IonValueData data = ION_VALUE_MAPPER.parse(ion, IonValueData.class);
+
+        assertEquals(1, data.getAllData().size());
+        assertEquals(SYSTEM.newNullList(), data.getAllData().get("c"));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void shouldBeAbleToDeserializeNullStruct() throws Exception {
+        IonValue ion = ion("{c:null.struct}");
+
+        IonValueData data = ION_VALUE_MAPPER.parse(ion, IonValueData.class);
+
+        assertEquals(1, data.getAllData().size());
+        assertEquals(SYSTEM.newNullStruct(), data.getAllData().get("c"));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void shouldBeAbleToDeserializeNullValue() throws Exception {
+        IonValue ion = SYSTEM.newNull();
+
+        IonValue data = ION_VALUE_MAPPER.parse(ion, IonValue.class);
+
+        assertEquals(ion, data);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void shouldBeAbleToDeserializeAnnotatedNullStruct() throws Exception {
+        IonValue ion = ion("foo::null.struct");
+
+        IonValue data = ION_VALUE_MAPPER.parse(ion, IonValue.class);
+
+        assertEquals(ion, data);
+        assertEquals(1, data.getTypeAnnotations().length);
+        assertEquals("foo", data.getTypeAnnotations()[0]);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void shouldBeAbleToDeserializeAnnotatedNullList() throws Exception {
+        IonValue ion = ion("foo::null.list");
+
+        IonValue data = ION_VALUE_MAPPER.parse(ion, IonValue.class);
+
+        assertEquals(ion, data);
+        assertEquals(1, data.getTypeAnnotations().length);
+        assertEquals("foo", data.getTypeAnnotations()[0]);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void shouldBeAbleToSerializeAndDeserializePojo() throws Exception {
+        IonValueData source = new IonValueData();
+        source.put("a", ion("1"));
+        source.put("c", ion("null.list"));
+
+        IonValue data = ION_VALUE_MAPPER.serialize(source);
+        IonValueData result = ION_VALUE_MAPPER.parse(data, IonValueData.class);
+
+        assertEquals(source, result);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void shouldBeAbleToSerializeAndDeserializeStringData() throws Exception {
+        StringData source = new StringData();
+        source.put("a", "1");
+        source.put("b", null);
+
+        IonValue data = ION_VALUE_MAPPER.serialize(source);
+        StringData result = ION_VALUE_MAPPER.parse(data, StringData.class);
+
+        assertEquals(source, result);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void shouldOverrideNullAccessPatternToBeDynamic() {
+        IonValueDeserializer deserializer = new IonValueDeserializer();
+        assertEquals(AccessPattern.DYNAMIC, deserializer.getNullAccessPattern());
+    }
+
+    private static IonValue ion(String value) {
+        return SYSTEM.singleValue(value);
+    }
+}