Whipped cream article in box with lens (6)
I believe the answer is:
camera
'lens' is the definition.
(camera lens is a kind of lens)
'whipped cream article in' is the wordplay.
'whipped' indicates an anagram.
'article' becomes 'a' (the indefinite article in English).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'cream' is an anagram of 'cmera'.
'cmera' placed around 'a' is 'CAMERA'.
'box with' acts as a link.
This may not be correct. Some or all of it may be part of another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for camera that I've seen before include "Photo-taker" , "Nullify" , "Device for taking photographs" , "One creating image" , "Optical recorder" .)