diff --git a/include/pybind11/pytypes.h b/include/pybind11/pytypes.h
index 7ba991e06..d7482927b 100644
--- a/include/pybind11/pytypes.h
+++ b/include/pybind11/pytypes.h
@@ -2571,7 +2571,7 @@ template <typename D>
 object object_api<D>::annotations() const {
 // Python 3.8, 3.9
 #if PY_MAJOR_VERSION == 3 && PY_MINOR_VERSION <= 9
-    if (isinstance<type>(derived())) {
+    if (hasattr(derived(), "__dict__")) {
         return getattr(getattr(derived(), "__dict__"), "__annotations__", dict());
     } else {
         return getattr(derived(), "__annotations__", dict());
diff --git a/tests/test_pytypes.py b/tests/test_pytypes.py
index 8545fac5c..332f2125e 100644
--- a/tests/test_pytypes.py
+++ b/tests/test_pytypes.py
@@ -1105,7 +1105,7 @@ def test_dict_ranges(tested_dict, expected):
 
 # https://docs.python.org/3/howto/annotations.html#accessing-the-annotations-dict-of-an-object-in-python-3-9-and-older
 def get_annotations_helper(o):
-    dir(o)
+    print(dir(o))
     if isinstance(o, type):
         return o.__dict__.get("__annotations__", {})
     return getattr(o, "__annotations__", {})
@@ -1125,6 +1125,7 @@ def test_class_attribute_types() -> None:
     assert empty_annotations == {}
     assert annotations["x"] == "float"
     assert annotations["dict_str_int"] == "dict[str, int]"
+    assert False
 
 
 def test_final_annotation() -> None: