diff --git a/src/Attr.cc b/src/Attr.cc
index c6cf036642..d63f72a3fd 100644
--- a/src/Attr.cc
+++ b/src/Attr.cc
@@ -372,11 +372,21 @@ void Attributes::CheckAttr(Attr* a)
 			{
 			// &default applies to record field.
 
-			if ( same_type(atype, type) ||
-			     (atype->Tag() == TYPE_TABLE && atype->AsTableType()->IsUnspecifiedTable()) )
+			if ( same_type(atype, type) )
 				// Ok.
 				break;
 
+			if ( (atype->Tag() == TYPE_TABLE && atype->AsTableType()->IsUnspecifiedTable()) )
+				{
+				Expr* e = a->AttrExpr();
+
+				if ( check_and_promote_expr(e, type) )
+					{
+					a->SetAttrExpr(e);
+					break;
+					}
+				}
+
 			// Table defaults may be promotable.
 			if ( ytype && ytype->Tag() == TYPE_RECORD &&
 			     atype->Tag() == TYPE_RECORD &&
diff --git a/testing/btest/Baseline/language.record-default-coercion/out b/testing/btest/Baseline/language.record-default-coercion/out
index bf76ba5033..0e9619bbd4 100644
--- a/testing/btest/Baseline/language.record-default-coercion/out
+++ b/testing/btest/Baseline/language.record-default-coercion/out
@@ -20,3 +20,6 @@
 0
 [a=13, c=13, v=[test]]
 1
+[a={
+[one] = 1
+}]
diff --git a/testing/btest/language/record-default-coercion.zeek b/testing/btest/language/record-default-coercion.zeek
index 83e48044a3..231edc7b60 100644
--- a/testing/btest/language/record-default-coercion.zeek
+++ b/testing/btest/language/record-default-coercion.zeek
@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ type Bar: record {
 	foo: Foo &default=[$foo=1234];
 };
 
+type Qux: record {
+	a: table[string] of string &default=table();
+};
+
 function print_bar(b: Bar)
 	{
 	print b;
@@ -46,3 +50,7 @@ print |r$v|;
 r$v += "test";
 print r;
 print |r$v|;
+
+local q = Qux();
+q$a["one"] = "1";
+print q;