diff --git a/svgio/qa/cppunit/SvgImportTest.cxx b/svgio/qa/cppunit/SvgImportTest.cxx
index 8256f6392725..4cab973b5003 100644
--- a/svgio/qa/cppunit/SvgImportTest.cxx
+++ b/svgio/qa/cppunit/SvgImportTest.cxx
@@ -434,6 +434,14 @@ CPPUNIT_TEST_FIXTURE(Test, testTdf145896)
     assertXPath(pDocument, "/primitive2D/transform/polypolygoncolor[3]"_ostr, "color"_ostr, "#0000ff");
 }
 
+CPPUNIT_TEST_FIXTURE(Test, testTdf156579)
+{
+    xmlDocUniquePtr pDocument = dumpAndParseSvg(u"/svgio/qa/cppunit/data/tdf156579.svg");
+
+    // Without the fix in place, nothing would be displayed
+    assertXPath(pDocument, "/primitive2D/transform/mask/transform/polypolygoncolor[1]"_ostr, "color"_ostr, "#0000ff");
+}
+
 CPPUNIT_TEST_FIXTURE(Test, testTdf156168)
 {
     xmlDocUniquePtr pDocument = dumpAndParseSvg(u"/svgio/qa/cppunit/data/tdf156168.svg");
diff --git a/svgio/qa/cppunit/data/tdf156579.svg b/svgio/qa/cppunit/data/tdf156579.svg
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..27610784dd87
--- /dev/null
+++ b/svgio/qa/cppunit/data/tdf156579.svg
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
+<svg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' xmlns:xlink='http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink' width="310.024" height="72.283" viewBox="0 0 310.024 72.283">
+	<switch>
+		<foreignObject requiredExtensions="" x="0" y="0" width="0" height="0">
+		</foreignObject>
+		<rect x="0" y="0" height="100" width="100" fill="blue"></rect>
+	</switch>
+</svg>