diff --git a/include/qpdf/QPDFObjectHandle.hh b/include/qpdf/QPDFObjectHandle.hh
index a965f468..9ea329ff 100644
--- a/include/qpdf/QPDFObjectHandle.hh
+++ b/include/qpdf/QPDFObjectHandle.hh
@@ -1197,6 +1197,13 @@ class QPDFObjectHandle
     QPDF_DLL
     JSON getJSON(int json_version, bool dereference_indirect = false);
 
+    // Write the object encoded as JSON to a pipeline. This is equivalent to, but more efficient
+    // than, calling getJSON(json_version, dereference_indirect).write(p, depth). See the
+    // documentation for getJSON and JSON::write for further detail.
+    QPDF_DLL
+    void
+    writeJSON(int json_version, Pipeline* p, bool dereference_indirect = false, size_t depth = 0);
+
     // Deprecated version uses v1 for backward compatibility.
     // ABI: remove for qpdf 12
     [[deprecated("Use getJSON(int version)")]] QPDF_DLL JSON
diff --git a/libqpdf/QPDFObjectHandle.cc b/libqpdf/QPDFObjectHandle.cc
index 4fda24f5..9b9849a3 100644
--- a/libqpdf/QPDFObjectHandle.cc
+++ b/libqpdf/QPDFObjectHandle.cc
@@ -1638,6 +1638,13 @@ QPDFObjectHandle::writeJSON(int json_version, JSON::Writer& p, bool dereference_
     }
 }
 
+void
+QPDFObjectHandle::writeJSON(int json_version, Pipeline* p, bool dereference_indirect, size_t depth)
+{
+    JSON::Writer jw{p, depth};
+    writeJSON(json_version, jw, dereference_indirect);
+}
+
 JSON
 QPDFObjectHandle::getStreamJSON(
     int json_version,
diff --git a/qpdf/qtest/qpdf-json.test b/qpdf/qtest/qpdf-json.test
index defabbe7..299bcd7e 100644
--- a/qpdf/qtest/qpdf-json.test
+++ b/qpdf/qtest/qpdf-json.test
@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ $td->runtest("check C API write to JSON stream",
 # (using #xx) would generate invalid JSON, even though qpdf's own JSON
 # parser would accept it. Also, the JSON spec allows real numbers in
 # scientific notation, but the PDF spec does not.
-$n_tests += 6;
+$n_tests += 7;
 $td->runtest("handle binary names",
              {$td->COMMAND =>
                   "qpdf --json-output weird-tokens.pdf a.json"},
@@ -379,6 +379,9 @@ $td->runtest("check json",
              {$td->FILE => "a.json"},
              {$td->FILE => "weird-tokens-v1.json"},
              $td->NORMALIZE_NEWLINES);
-
+$td->runtest("write JSON to pipeline",
+             {$td->COMMAND => "test_driver 98 minimal.pdf ''"},
+             {$td->STRING => "test 98 done\n", $td->EXIT_STATUS => 0},
+             $td->NORMALIZE_NEWLINES);
 cleanup();
 $td->report($n_tests);
diff --git a/qpdf/test_driver.cc b/qpdf/test_driver.cc
index 28d8062c..f421f86a 100644
--- a/qpdf/test_driver.cc
+++ b/qpdf/test_driver.cc
@@ -3380,6 +3380,22 @@ test_97(QPDF& pdf, char const* arg2)
     assert(nulls.unparse() == nulls2.unparse());
 }
 
+static void
+test_98(QPDF& pdf, char const* arg2)
+{
+    // Test QPDFObjectHandle::writeJSON. This test is built for minimal.pdf.
+    for (int i = 1; i < 7; ++i) {
+        auto oh = pdf.getObject(i, 0);
+        Pl_Buffer bf1{"write", nullptr};
+        Pl_Buffer bf2{"get", nullptr};
+        oh.writeJSON(JSON::LATEST, &bf1, true, 7);
+        bf1.finish();
+        oh.getJSON(JSON::LATEST, true).write(&bf2, 7);
+        bf2.finish();
+        assert(bf1.getString() == bf2.getString());
+    }
+}
+
 void
 runtest(int n, char const* filename1, char const* arg2)
 {
@@ -3481,7 +3497,7 @@ runtest(int n, char const* filename1, char const* arg2)
         {78, test_78}, {79, test_79}, {80, test_80}, {81, test_81}, {82, test_82}, {83, test_83},
         {84, test_84}, {85, test_85}, {86, test_86}, {87, test_87}, {88, test_88}, {89, test_89},
         {90, test_90}, {91, test_91}, {92, test_92}, {93, test_93}, {94, test_94}, {95, test_95},
-        {96, test_96}, {97, test_97}};
+        {96, test_96}, {97, test_97}, {98, test_98}};
 
     auto fn = test_functions.find(n);
     if (fn == test_functions.end()) {