diff --git a/src/js/builtins/JSBufferConstructor.ts b/src/js/builtins/JSBufferConstructor.ts
index 69615d8dcc8b8..2c0c09e982ba7 100644
--- a/src/js/builtins/JSBufferConstructor.ts
+++ b/src/js/builtins/JSBufferConstructor.ts
@@ -29,6 +29,12 @@ export function from(items) {
       }
     }
   }
+  if (typeof items === "object") {
+    const data = items.data;
+    if (items.type === "Buffer" && Array.isArray(data)) {
+      return new $Buffer(data);
+    }
+  }
 
   var arrayLike = $toObject(
     items,
diff --git a/test/js/node/buffer.test.js b/test/js/node/buffer.test.js
index 9eec90f9ed29a..32402af3d273c 100644
--- a/test/js/node/buffer.test.js
+++ b/test/js/node/buffer.test.js
@@ -2921,3 +2921,27 @@ export function fillRepeating(dstBuffer, start, end) {
     sLen <<= 1; // double length for next segment
   }
 }
+
+describe("serialization", () => {
+  it("json", () => {
+    expect(JSON.stringify(Buffer.alloc(0))).toBe('{"type":"Buffer","data":[]}');
+    expect(JSON.stringify(Buffer.from([1, 2, 3, 4]))).toBe('{"type":"Buffer","data":[1,2,3,4]}');
+  });
+
+  it("and deserialization", () => {
+    const buf = Buffer.from("test");
+    const json = JSON.stringify(buf);
+    const obj = JSON.parse(json);
+    const copy = Buffer.from(obj);
+    expect(copy).toEqual(buf);
+  });
+
+  it("custom", () => {
+    const buffer = Buffer.from("test");
+    const string = JSON.stringify(buffer);
+    expect(string).toBe('{"type":"Buffer","data":[116,101,115,116]}');
+
+    const receiver = (key, value) => (value && value.type === "Buffer" ? Buffer.from(value.data) : value);
+    expect(JSON.parse(string, receiver)).toEqual(buffer);
+  });
+});