diff --git a/crates/polars-core/src/series/any_value.rs b/crates/polars-core/src/series/any_value.rs
index 6149690c85c5..55ac7b23753b 100644
--- a/crates/polars-core/src/series/any_value.rs
+++ b/crates/polars-core/src/series/any_value.rs
@@ -912,6 +912,7 @@ fn any_values_to_object(
             for av in values {
                 match av {
                     AnyValue::Object(val) => builder.append_value(val.as_any()),
+                    AnyValue::ObjectOwned(val) => builder.append_value(val.0.as_any()),
                     AnyValue::Null => builder.append_null(),
                     _ => {
                         polars_bail!(SchemaMismatch: "expected object");
diff --git a/py-polars/tests/unit/datatypes/test_object.py b/py-polars/tests/unit/datatypes/test_object.py
index 955461eac959..ff7330687cb4 100644
--- a/py-polars/tests/unit/datatypes/test_object.py
+++ b/py-polars/tests/unit/datatypes/test_object.py
@@ -199,3 +199,8 @@ def test_object_null_slice() -> None:
     assert_series_equal(s.slice(0, 2).is_null(), pl.Series("x", [False, True]))
     assert_series_equal(s.slice(1, 1).is_null(), pl.Series("x", [True]))
     assert_series_equal(s.slice(2, 1).is_null(), pl.Series("x", [False]))
+
+
+def test_object_sort_scalar_19925() -> None:
+    a = object()
+    assert pl.DataFrame({"a": [0], "obj": [a]}).sort("a")["obj"].item() == a