diff --git a/addons/web/static/src/js/fields/abstract_field.js b/addons/web/static/src/js/fields/abstract_field.js
index 8bb9afca065..2534f8ae90a 100644
--- a/addons/web/static/src/js/fields/abstract_field.js
+++ b/addons/web/static/src/js/fields/abstract_field.js
@@ -44,11 +44,6 @@ var AbstractField = Widget.extend({
         navigation_move: '_onNavigationMove',
     },
 
-    /**
-     * fields can extend the context, e.g. binary fields add {bin_size: true}
-     */
-    context: null,
-
     /**
     * An object representing fields to be fetched by the model eventhough not present in the view
     * This object contains "field name" as key and an object as value.
diff --git a/addons/web/static/src/js/views/basic/basic_model.js b/addons/web/static/src/js/views/basic/basic_model.js
index d7fbee2b30d..1c25d029cfd 100644
--- a/addons/web/static/src/js/views/basic/basic_model.js
+++ b/addons/web/static/src/js/views/basic/basic_model.js
@@ -3092,16 +3092,13 @@ var BasicModel = AbstractModel.extend({
             id: {type: 'integer'},
         }, params.fields);
 
-        // datapoint context is extended by fields widgets
-        var context = _.extend({}, params.context);
-
         var dataPoint = {
             _cache: type === 'list' ? {} : undefined,
             _changes: null,
             _domains: {},
             _rawChanges: {},
             aggregateValues: params.aggregateValues || {},
-            context: context,
+            context: params.context,
             count: params.count || res_ids.length,
             data: data,
             domain: params.domain || [],
diff --git a/addons/web/static/tests/fields/relational_fields_tests.js b/addons/web/static/tests/fields/relational_fields_tests.js
index 2eab2b421b5..a157577594c 100644
--- a/addons/web/static/tests/fields/relational_fields_tests.js
+++ b/addons/web/static/tests/fields/relational_fields_tests.js
@@ -9251,7 +9251,7 @@ QUnit.module('relational_fields', {
                 '</tree>',
             mockRPC: function (route, args) {
                 if (args.method === 'read' && args.model === 'partner_type') {
-                    assert.deepEqual(args.kwargs.context.take, 'five',
+                    assert.deepEqual(args.kwargs.context, {take: 'five'},
                         'The context should be passed to the RPC');
                 }
             return this._super.apply(this, arguments);